Much truth in @AlexUsherHESA's blog post today, but he's missing the big point that academic workloads have increased as support staff have been cut & TT colleagues not replaced. So ....(1)
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Profs now are still researchers, authors, teachers, thesis supervisors, mentors, truth finders, but d/t cuts, are ALSO secretaries, complaints managers, career coaches, knowledge mobilizers, travel agents, accounting clerks & overall administrivia sherpas (2) @AlexUsherHESA
Add the impact of hiring precariat (sessionals) instead of TT profs: the burden of work for grad student supervision, academic cmttes, tri-council grant adjudication cmttes, peer reviews, collegial governance, is disproportionately heavy on Assoc & Full profs (3) @AlexUsherHESA
Every call to cut university costs by "cutting administration" ends up adding undocumented, invisible labour onto professors. It's necessary work, paid for in sleep deprivation, anxiety, lost family time, articles & books unfinished, delayed peer reviews, etc. (4) @AlexUsherHESA
The overtime burden on profs is real & should not be discounted as just 'culture of NA academic work style'. #SlowProfessor may'nt be *the* solution -the problem's structural, based in anti-taxation/neolib funding model- but it's 1 option for good scholarship (end)@AlexUsherHESA
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