Election day is tomorrow, but we know that the full results of the voting likely won’t be known for several weeks. Perhaps we will continue to feel election anxiety for the rest of the semester. Maybe until January 20, 2025. And despite the somersaults our stomachs will keep turning, we
If you’ve read these pages in the past three years, you’ve seen me write a lot about burnout and its impact on faculty well-being and institutional culture. The World Health Organization (2019) defines burnout as “a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.” It has
If a university were a quilt, the faculty would be the threads holding the fabric together. But despite their essential role, faculty often find themselves undervalued and underappreciated. This article delves into the paradoxical situation where faculty are both indispensable yet frequently treated as expendable, examining the emotional toll and
Today’s environment for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) looks dramatically different than just a year ago. Several state legislatures are now asking colleges and universities to report on their
What are the equity stakes in student evaluations of teaching (SETs)? And how are these stakes intensified for minoritized contingent faculty in a two-tiered faculty system? This question is
Students, parents, and the public need to understand the value of higher education if colleges and universities are going to rebut the omnipresent hostility to the enterprise that we see
