I have spoken to and hear from a lot of Georgia Tech faculty over the last week. Many, especially those untenured or ineligible for tenure, are afraid to say anything. But they are *pissed off*. Here are some of the patterns I have seen:

- Faculty are horrified that the university is not creating a safe environment for them or students. Indeed, that an institution of science seems unconcerned that its choices having any relationship with medical and scientific fact. Many feel a sense of professional treason.

- They are shocked to discover that conflict is the only mode of interaction at this institution. Support and care, for their persons and their collective projects, appear to be nil. The consistent impression is one of a top-heavy autocracy responding only to autocracies above.

- New faculty are regretting having come here. Some are already talking about leaving as soon as possible. The pandemic economy will make that hard, so the bitterness will metastasize. Longtime faculty are falling deeper into the despair years of these conditions have cultured.

It’s felt like Georgia Tech has been slowly dying for a decade. Now it feels like the devastation has become all consuming, everyone having woke up and realized the suffering they didn’t previously notice. I don’t know how this institution can recover without wholesale change.