Why are faculty still posting about “working harder” to create online classes, and therefore students need to stop asking for tuition reductions? A thread. 1/5

Student tuition $ has never been about how hard faculty worked. Student tuition $ is about operational costs. Yes, a large part of those costs are faculty salary. But faculty salary is not about how hard faculty work. Fac salary is about hierarchy & tenure & research profile. 2/5

There is a qualitative and quantitative difference between in-person & online learning. Every colleague who has taught online-& thoughtfully & well-long b4 Covid says this. For students to protest tuition costs & online learning is not a personal slight against faculty. 3/5

How is anyone who makes a career in academia not outraged about the price of undergraduate tuition? The problem is not students. The problem is not even Covid and online learning. The problem is college + capitalism. 4/5

One pathology of academia is the need for to proclaim loudly how hard one works. Enough. Upset that students are upset? Don’t make it about you. Help teach students how to advocate for themselves in the oft-impenetrable higher ed system you know far better than they do. 5/5

Doh! Ignore the errant “for”.