Depressing Blogs for Academics
I know lot of people I follow (if not a lot of people following me) (not that many people follow me, actually) (shrug) are academics, or would-be academics: starting grad school, in grad school, ABDs, graduated adjuncts like moi.
I'm assuming that a lot of you know, or at least have a clue, what a giant clusterfuck higher ed is the US right now, but in case you don't, or in case you want a very clear breakdown of what the hell the problem is, and why I wish I had a time machine, read How the American University Was Killed, in Five Easy Steps over at The Homeless Adjunct.
All around the country, our undergraduates are being taught by faculty living at or near the poverty line, who have little to no say in the way classes are being taught, the number of students in a class, or how curriculum is being designed. They often have no offices in which to meet their students, no professional staff support, no professional development support. One million of our college professors are struggling to continue offering the best they can in the face of this wasteland of deteriorated professional support, while living the very worst kind of economic insecurity.
It's worse than you think.
