Succinct summary from @ErikLoomis of what's at play in higher ed right now, particularly public higher ed. It's an acceleration of the trends of the last 30 years, and if we don't act, it could be the end times. lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/12/shock-…
I did my best to offer a vision that moves us away from this precipice in Sustainable. Resilient. Free.: The Future of Public Higher Education. beltpublishing.com/products/susta…
In the post at the top of the thread, @ErikLoomis nails the disconnect at work. 
In my book, I frame this as working from operations on down when what we need is to work from mission on up. That mission is the things we claim to value for higher education.
In the book, I only articulate the things people claim education is supposed to achieve, and then identify how the status quo is ill-suited to meeting those goals. But also, it's not impossible to reorient the system around those goals.
We can do what we claim we want public higher ed to do. It's totally possible! Some shit's gotta change, though.
Lots of us saw it coming. I said for years that to protect their own positions, tenured faculty should strongly advocate for equitable pay for adjuncts and to establish a fair value for the labor of teaching. insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis…
I tried to point out that most faculty are laborers, supported by tuition revenue, not knowledge workers valued for their intellectual contributions. U. Co. is dumping tenured faculty and replacing them with half as many contingent instructors. Inevitable insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis…
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