Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Tue August 11, 2020 6:48 pm
FUCK ICE
Yes. If they had that kind of money, why didn't they spend it to properly outfit schools and make them safe?tragabigzanda wrote:(double posting in the elections 2020 thread)
Anything like this happening elsewhere?
I agree in some ways, but usually staff are the first to go with big shifts like this. Faculty will be last.tragabigzanda wrote:My general feeling on this -- admittedly without having some firm numbers to back it up -- is that the university system is long overdue for a financial reckoning. They can start with the tenure track bullshit.elliseamos wrote:Not without that tuition money flowing in (fully aware the kid in question is on scholarship).tragabigzanda wrote:College will be there in January.
Confirmed speculation! Thanks, Trag.tragabigzanda wrote:Confirmed it is from the CARES package. I know the state has been waiting on certain portions of funding to come through, so I'm just speculating it's from thattragabigzanda wrote:I'm not certain, but I *think* it's coming from a portion of the Federal relief funds that have been tied up in the pipelineB wrote:Yes. If they had that kind of money, why didn't they spend it to properly outfit schools and make them safe?tragabigzanda wrote:(double posting in the elections 2020 thread)
Anything like this happening elsewhere?
Your post starts with confirmed and has speculating at the end.tragabigzanda wrote:*informed speculation
FWIW, people in higher ed have been talking about this since before the pandemic. They call it "the cliff" loltragabigzanda wrote:My general feeling on this -- admittedly without having some firm numbers to back it up -- is that the university system is long overdue for a financial reckoning. They can start with the tenure track bullshit.elliseamos wrote:Not without that tuition money flowing in (fully aware the kid in question is on scholarship).tragabigzanda wrote:College will be there in January.
Don't know what you're talking about.tragabigzanda wrote:My general feeling on this -- admittedly without having some firm numbers to back it up -- is that the university system is long overdue for a financial reckoning. They can start with the tenure track bullshit.elliseamos wrote:Not without that tuition money flowing in (fully aware the kid in question is on scholarship).tragabigzanda wrote:College will be there in January.
Like I said, you don't know what you're talking about if you think that anecdotal Ivy or Five College stories is anywhere near representative of the broader employment situation of faculty or the budgetary realities of the modern university.tragabigzanda wrote:lol. I lived in Cambridge and Amherst. I know more than my fair share of profs who are making upwards of six figures to publish one paper a year, and maybe teach a single course.Mickey wrote:Sorry, I should clarify--you don't know what you're talking about.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/201 ... g-new-aaupSome 73 percent of all faculty positions are off the tenure track, according to a new analysis of federal data by the American Association of University Professors.
“For the most part, these are insecure, unsupported positions with little job security and few protections for academic freedom,” reads AAUP’s “Data Snapshot: Contingent Faculty in U.S. Higher Ed.” The report is based on the most recent data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, from 2016.
AAUP’s report discusses long-standing concerns about the decline of tenure and what that means for academic freedom, as well as the “casualization” of academic labor and the unbundling of the traditional faculty role. But it also provides an up-to-date picture of who is teaching, under what conditions, where.
Breaking down non-tenure-track positions by institution type, it’s clear that tenure and tenure-track positions are more represented at research-intensive and other four-year institutions, where they are about one-third of the faculty. Tenure-line jobs are about 20 percent of all faculty positions at two-year institutions.