Due to Covid, many institutions are going under. Bridgeport university in CT ; Jesuit SLAC Canisius College in upstate NY firing lots of tenured faculty ; university of Akron in Ohio dozens of tenured faculty. It’s becoming a bloodbath out there. Be ready to compete against senior faculty next year...
Firings of Tenured faculty
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Well, let's have some good news: this crisis has highlighted how myopic our community is, motivated by productivity and status, and has helped me put my life and career in perspective.
Provided I manage to find another decent job, I am starting to look forward to seeing the back of it honestly.
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U of Arkansas also fired tenured faculty ; don’t know anything about the other two. That adjuncts get fired, VPs and postdocs don’t see contracts renewed and all university employees are furloughed did not surprise me. The speed with which tenured and tenure track faculty are being laid off did. And the second Covid wave has not even begun; once universities will have to close in fall or realize how few students will want to pay full tuition for online zoom classes, all hell will break loose. 40% of all American universities could go under within a year. If there’s no vaccine by next year, it could be higher.
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Looking to what's happening in universities in the Southern Hemisphere, where semesters traditionally run Feb or March to November can give a good indication of what's to come. Many unis such as those in Australia have had massive lay-offs and salary slashes as COVID significantly effected first term and second term for the year.
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U of Arkansas also fired tenured faculty ; don�t know anything about the other two. That adjuncts get fired, VPs and postdocs don�t see contracts renewed and all university employees are furloughed did not surprise me. The speed with which tenured and tenure track faculty are being laid off did. And the second Covid wave has not even begun; once universities will have to close in fall or realize how few students will want to pay full tuition for online zoom classes, all hell will break loose. 40% of all American universities could go under within a year. If there�s no vaccine by next year, it could be higher.
Where did the 40% figure come from? My university almost has the same enrollment as last year.
My guess for unis without already existing financial issues: firings of non-tenure and partial furloughs. And, if that isn’t enough, collapsing departments (Department of Social Sciences).
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Where did the 40% figure come from? My university almost has the same enrollment as last year.
My guess for unis without already existing financial issues: firings of non-tenure and partial furloughs. And, if that isn�t enough, collapsing departments (Department of Social Sciences).Just curious, in your case what is “almost the same enrollment as last year?” Even a small decline in enrollment can have a big impact on revenue in multiple ways.
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40% of all American institutions of higher learning have less than 2000 students each; money from dorms is about 30% of their revenue on average which disappears with online learning, exacerbated by lower enrollment. This is just the beginning of the real crisis.
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Another question: are these firings mostly (1) department closures or (2) focused firings?
What I mean by “focused firings”: universities using the the pandemic as an opportunity to get rid of people who haven’t published in a decade, who students despise, or cause controversies.