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kind of weird that we aren& #39;t seeing more higher ed leaders walk out over their institutions& #39; decisions to risk the lives of their students and staff this fall. now seems like a time for courage. where is it?
I& #39;ve never had a job that paid six figures and I& #39;ve never been a supervisor, so I really don& #39;t know how tightly I& #39;d cling to power. But it& #39;s hard to imagine standing by and watching this unfold.
I& #39;m really fucking scared about what the opening of campuses is going to do to communities. I& #39;m worried about what the last-minute reversal of policies will do to families and students. I am horrified by the way labor exploitation is escalating during this crisis.
Every day, I understand more clearly how institutions prevent individuals from wielding their power to create change. I understand that there are a lot of people in positions of moderate power working really really hard to protect the people who report to them. Often thanklessly.
But then I think, it& #39;s not often that knowledge producers are literally asked to endanger peoples lives. Like not epistemologically or ontologically but their actual lives. And I think, I don& #39;t know, maybe that& #39;s a hard line that we don& #39;t want to cross?
A colleague reminded me (privately, generously) that we will never see most of the actions that people in positions of power are taking to protect workers now. I believe this and the last thing I want is to show disrespect to people working 24/7 to protect their staff. But
individual admins cannot carry the weight of protecting university staff alone. I worry about the well-being of the people who do the most good at our institutions. And I worry there are too few, and they are spread too thin, to stop this tide.
