Posted on 09/14/2023 4:05:39 AM PDT by karpov
Last week, American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapters and faculty unions in four Southern states released the results of a survey purporting to reinforce the notion of a higher-ed “brain drain” prompted by state legislative action and the generally conservative political climates in Florida, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina. As the headline of one article based on the survey put it, “In These Red States, Faculty Are Eyeing the Exits.”
I’m not convinced. And I don’t think state legislators will be either, despite the hopes of the sponsoring organizations.
In the first place, unlike the most credible surveys, this one sought respondents through emails and social-media posts, not by pursuing and constructing a random sample of faculty. We can surmise that those likeliest to respond are the organizations’ own activists, who are at the forefront of the resistance to their state legislatures. How representative such responses are of faculty opinion as a whole, we simply can’t know.
What’s more, the response numbers are not proportional to state faculty populations. Texas and Georgia respondents comprise roughly 75 percent of the total, while numbers in Florida (642) and North Carolina (248) are so small as to make even barely credible claims about faculty opinion in those states impossible.
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If leftist academics are leaving the state, what is the problem? Wish them a fond farewell.
Yeah, those are the Leftists planning on leaving (finally!). What I hear is they're going "back up north"...
Yeah giving up tenured positions with a 24/7 work schedule (24 hours a week 7 months a year), great salary and benefits, and spending at least two hours a day at lunch, drinking coffee in the faculty lounge, and blogging on the computer.
Giving all that up to head north to what? Are colleges up north looking to fill vancancies?
The problem is the state public pension funds.
Please elucidate. Why do professors leaving the state affect the state pension funds? Are they still being paid after they leave?
After they leave, they stop contributing.
Interesting. I just assumed that any “fleeing” professors would be replaced with a new hire. Someones got to indoctrinate the young skulls.
BULLSH!T.
I live in NC.
They are flooding our state.
Only the crazy ones....and good riddance to them.
Tenure is the most destructive force ever foisted on the education system. The 2nd is the Federal Government taking over the educational loan business. Government ultimately ruins everything it purports to help.
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