{"id":86508,"date":"2023-04-12T10:02:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T14:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=86508"},"modified":"2023-04-12T21:13:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T01:13:05","slug":"to-faculty-members-faculty-senates-provosts-he-presidents-and-accreditors-you-reap-what-you-sow-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/04\/12\/to-faculty-members-faculty-senates-provosts-he-presidents-and-accreditors-you-reap-what-you-sow-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"To faculty members, faculty senates, provosts, HE presidents, and accreditors: You reap what you sow [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Regarding the core curricula of colleges and universities&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">For decades now, faculty members have taught <em>what they wanted to teach<\/em> and <em>what interested them<\/em>. They taught <em>what they wanted to research<\/em> vs. what the wider marketplace\/workplace needed. They were not responsive to the needs of the workplace &#8212; nor to the needs of their students!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">And this situation has been all the more compounded by the increasing costs of obtaining a degree plus the exponential pace of change. We weren&#8217;t doing a good job before this exponential pace of change started taking place &#8212; and now it&#8217;s (almost?) impossible to keep up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The bottom line on the article below: ***<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">It\u2019s sales.***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Therefore, it\u2019s about what you are selling \u2014 and at what price. The story hasn\u2019t changed much. The narrative (i.e., the curricula and more) is pretty much the same thing that\u2019s been sold for years.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">But the days of faculty members teaching whatever they wanted to are over, or significantly waning.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Faculty members, faculty senates, provosts, presidents, and accreditors are reaping what they&#8217;ve sown.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The questions are now:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Will new seeds be sown? <\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Will new crops arise in the future? <\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Will there be new narratives? <\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Will institutions be able to reinvent themselves (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesgmartin.center\/2023\/04\/are-microcredentials-more-than-the-next-higher-ed-fad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one potential example here<\/a>)? <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Or will their cultures not allow such significant change to take place? <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>W<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>ill alternatives to institutions of traditional higher education continue to pick up steam?<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/a-profession-on-the-edge\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86509\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ProfessionOnTheEdge-Chronicle-Apr23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ProfessionOnTheEdge-Chronicle-Apr23.jpg 1512w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ProfessionOnTheEdge-Chronicle-Apr23-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ProfessionOnTheEdge-Chronicle-Apr23-150x78.jpg 150w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ProfessionOnTheEdge-Chronicle-Apr23-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1512px) 100vw, 1512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/a-profession-on-the-edge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>A Profession on the Edge<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from chronicle.com by Eric Hoover<br \/>\n<em>Why enrollment leaders are wearing down, burning out, and leaving jobs they once loved.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Similar stories are echoing throughout the hallways of higher education. Vice presidents for enrollment, as well as admissions deans and directors, are wearing down, burning out, and leaving jobs they once loved. Though there\u2019s no way to compile a chart quantifying the churn, industry insiders describe it as significant. \u201cWe\u2019re at an inflection point,\u201d says Rick Clark, executive director of undergraduate admission at Georgia Tech. \u201cThere have always been people leaving the field, but not in the numbers we\u2019re seeing now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Some are being shoved out the door by presidents and boards. Some are resigning out of exhaustion, frustration, and disillusionment. And some who once sought top-level positions are rethinking their ambitions. \u201cThe pressures have ratcheted up tenfold,\u201d says Angel B. P\u00e9rez, chief executive of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, known as NACAC. \u201cI talk with someone each week who\u2019s either leaving the field or considering leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">This quote points to what I&#8217;m trying to address here:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Dahlstrom and other veterans of the field say they\u2019ve experienced something especially disquieting: an erosion of faith in the transformational power of higher education. Though she sought a career in admissions to help students, her disillusionment grew after taking on a leadership role. She became less confident that she was equipped to effect positive changes, at her institution or beyond, especially when it came to the challenge of expanding college access in a nation of socioeconomic disparities: <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cI felt like a cog in a huge machine that\u2019s not working, yet continues to grind while only small, temporary fixes are made.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Regarding the core curricula of colleges and universities&#8230; For decades now, faculty members have taught what they wanted to teach and what interested them. They taught what they wanted to research vs. what the wider marketplace\/workplace needed. 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