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If you think what& #39;s happening to tenured, TT faculty is bad (pay cuts, workload, retirement matching) wait until you hear about staff& #39;s or adjuncts& #39; typical 12 month life.
We& #39;re either in this together or we& #39;re not. If you have tenure, I need you to be brave & speak out.
We& #39;re either in this together or we& #39;re not. If you have tenure, I need you to be brave & speak out.
As a staff member, I had a 12 month, Pulitzer prize-winning faculty member berate me because I ordered "wrong". My (faculty) supervisor said nothing. I had up deescalate.
As a staff member I was asked to do something that I was uncomfortable doing, I stated my discomfort, said I didn& #39;t want to do x because if it went wrong I could be fired by the institution. I was told to do it anyway.
As a staff member I sat in a department meeting where faculty disparaged me and the other staff member and then was dismissed from the meeting.
As a staff member I enforced University policy and then a junior faculty member condescendingly explained how I messed up my job and was creating barriers for faculty
As a staff member, following best practices, I posted something through the institution& #39;s Facebook account (approved by marketing) and had several faculty members complain to my boss. I then had marketing edit my post to be less "upsetting"
As a staff member in each of these instances, I literally risked my job. In most of them, I had no union. No protection. I live in an at-will state.
Use your tenure for good. Maybe just this once.
