There was a way for higher ed to reinvent itself to be resilient, student-focused, and mission-driven both through and after this crisis, but it just isn& #39;t going to happen. I don& #39;t know why I even entertained the possibility.

The story now is just an intensified version of before, individual instructors working themselves beyond what& #39;s sensible in order to prop up the work of the institution while the institution reorganizes around the additional immiseration of those individuals.

It& #39;s so depressing to see the incredible heavy lift that instructors and students are pulling off this fall, juxtaposed against the institutional sclerosis that cannot envision anything other than a steadily worsening status quo.

Three + years ago I illustrated the ways it was clear that institution were not holding up their end of the bargain when assessed according to their purported values. It& #39;s only worse now. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/admitting-we-might-not-be-doing-job-anymore">https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/jus...

We could be doing the work of positioning institutions to be the rescuers, rather than another in a long line of those needing rescuing, but that ship is rapidly sailing. Maybe it& #39;s already sailed. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/using-research-build-resilient-student-focused-institutions">https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/jus...

I really I wish I could mentally and emotionally wash my hands of it all because it& #39;s like watching a slow motion train wreck that could& #39;ve been prevented day after day.