{"id":93397,"date":"2024-10-29T13:27:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=93397"},"modified":"2024-10-29T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:27:01","slug":"the-uberfication-of-higher-ed-ubell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/10\/29\/the-uberfication-of-higher-ed-ubell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Uberfication of Higher Ed [Ubell]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Uberfication of Higher Ed<\/strong><\/a> — from evolllution.com by Robert Ubell | Vice Dean Emeritus of Online Learning in the School of Engineering, New York University
\nAs the world of work increasingly relies on the gig economy, higher ed is no different. Many institutions seek to drive down labor costs by hiring contingent works, thereby leaving many faculty in a precarious position and driving down the quality of education.<\/em><\/p>\n

While some of us are aware that higher ed has been steadily moving away from employing mostly full-time, tenured and tenure-track faculty, replacing them with a part-time, contingent academic workforce, the latest\u00a0<\/span>AAUP report<\/span><\/a> issued<\/span>\u00a0this summer shows the trend is accelerating. Precarious college teachers have increased by nearly 300,000 over the last decade, as conventional faculty employment stays pretty much flat. It\u2019s part of a national trend in the wider economy that replaces permanent workers with lower paid, contingent staff\u2014members of what we now call the gig economy.<\/p>\n

The wide disparity is among the most glaring dysfunctions\u2014along with vast student debt, falling enrollment, rising tuition and other dangers afflicting higher education\u2014but it\u2019s the least acknowledged. Rarely, if ever, does it take its place among the most troubling ails of academic life. It\u2019s a silent disease, its symptoms largely ignored for over half a century.<\/p>\n

Do families who send their kids to college, paying increasingly stiff tuition, realize that most of the faculty at our universities are as precarious as Uber drivers?
\n…
\nEveryone at the table was taken aback, totally surprised, a sign\u2014even if anecdotal\u2014that this dirty secret is pretty safe. Mass participation of contingent faculty at our universities remains largely obscure, wrapped in a climate of silence, with adjunct faculty perpetuating the quiet by leaving their students mostly uninformed about their working conditions.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
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The Uberfication of Higher Ed — from evolllution.com by Robert Ubell | Vice Dean Emeritus of Online Learning in the School of Engineering, New York University As the world of work increasingly relies on the gig economy, higher ed is no different. Many institutions seek to drive down labor costs by hiring contingent works, thereby […]<\/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":[322,61,174,115,302,71,3,7,50,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-learning-ecosystem","category-teaching-learning","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93399,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93397\/revisions\/93399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}