Posted on 05/26/2020 5:24:55 PM PDT by fluorescence
Colleges are laying off their adjunct faculty, who mostly are women and people of color.
Keisha Blain attended a top program in her field, collaborated with renowned scholars and wrote an award-winning dissertation — all of which she was sure would lead to an immediate and secure academic appointment.
But upon graduating from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in history in 2014, she discovered that she had vastly underestimated the number of scholars seeking tenure-track positions. Blain was competing not only against her direct peers, but also against talented scholars who hadn't been able to find steady work in the aftermath of the 2008 economic recession and had become even more competitive applicants in the intervening years.
"That's when I realized all along that I had felt some undue sense of security," said Blain, an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh who specializes in African American history.
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administrators may perceive departments like African American studies and women and gender studies as "low-hanging fruit during periods of deep budget cuts" because their market value isn't as immediately evident as it is for a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) department, Doe said.
Blain echoed Doe's concern that departments like ethnic studies, which have served as "gateways for scholars of color, who have often been excluded from older, more traditional departments," will be targeted in cuts because their purpose has been misunderstood.
"Whereas people see African American studies as a black space or the product of black people angrily demanding more black professors, it actually exists because a multicultural coalition of students across various races and ethnicities recognized that we could not have a democracy without making sure diverse voices were included in how we teach our history and culture,"
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"And at Harvard University, the search for faculty specializing in ethnic studies has been indefinitely postponed because of the pandemic"
Democrats hardest hit; demand exemption from market forces.
Fixed it.
It’s all Chinese Communist party stuff now ?
You know...maybe we should keep universities locked down for a while longer.
For virus safety. Or something. :)
It’s a racist bacteria ....
That's a delicate way of admitting they are useless.
University students and social distancing .... yep .... happens every year
If they’d managed to complete degree programs in real subjects, they’d probably have less to worry about.
I'm all broke up about it, quite frankly........
“...University of Pittsburgh who specializes in African American history...”
Not a real job.
Imagine that, hiring people based on talent and skill...
Shocker.....
If they were mostly hiring women and minorities, well... as they say in the Vaterland, keine Scheisse.
She picked a crappy major. It’s all about supply and demand.
Most STEM departments will be replaced by online Communist Chinese and dot Indians. How’s that for diversity?
I couldn’t care less if all of these indoctrination centers go under. Not worth going into debt for.
I can’t wait to live in the America of Banglaore.
I went to University for engineering, and the only reason Chinese aren’t the rudest people ever is because there are Indian people.
A bunch of them live near me, and when I’m walking I say hello and they just ghost me.
Peak Brick and Mortar Edumacation.
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