{"id":85190,"date":"2023-01-25T11:16:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=85190"},"modified":"2023-01-25T12:31:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T17:31:05","slug":"the-academic-career-is-broken-leffingwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/01\/25\/the-academic-career-is-broken-leffingwell\/","title":{"rendered":"The academic career is broken [Leffingwell]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/the-academic-career-is-broken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>The academic career is broken<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 &#8212; from chronicle.com by Hannah Leffingwell<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We are in the midst of a crisis in academe, to be sure, but it\u2019s not an economic crisis. It\u2019s a crisis of faith. The question is not just whether our institutions pay faculty fairly, but whether any wage is worth the subservience and sacrifice that modern higher ed requires. Too often, colleges perceive themselves as voluntary, meritocratic institutions dedicated to a \u201chigher\u201d moral purpose. Or, as one of the characters in\u00a0<i>Babel<\/i>\u00a0puts it: \u201cThe professors like to pretend that the tower is a refuge for pure knowledge, that it sits above the mundane concerns of business and commerce, but it does not.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Have these strikes solved the central paradox of academe: a capitalist institution that claims it is above capitalism while exploiting students, faculty, and staff for financial gain? No, they have not.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>It gives me no pleasure to say that the system I have dedicated my entire life to is broken \u2014 that it needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also related to careers and higher education, see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/higher-ed-supervisors-retention-concerns-cupa-hr\/640427\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>36% of higher ed supervisors are looking for other work, study finds<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from highereddive.com by Laura Spitalniak<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Over a third of higher education supervisors, 36%, are likely to look for a new job in the next year, according to\u00a0a new survey\u00a0from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, CUPA-HR. And only 40% said they were interested in finding employment opportunities at their current institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The academic career is broken\u00a0 &#8212; from chronicle.com by Hannah Leffingwell Excerpt: We are in the midst of a crisis in academe, to be sure, but it\u2019s not an economic crisis. It\u2019s a crisis of faith. The question is not just whether our institutions pay faculty fairly, but whether any wage is worth the subservience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,86,115,302,840,159,3,419,74,7,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-development","category-change","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-culture","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-leadership","category-learning-ecosystem","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85201,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85190\/revisions\/85201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}