Tenure is dismantled in Georgia and looks like it will be in South Carolina too.
Imagine a higher education system where every professor is working on 1 semester to 5 year contracts, instead of say, having job security and a stable career trajectory. #AcademicChatter
"Tenure" (as a concept) deserves blame for upholding a lot of bad things (racism/discrimination/harassment/exploitation) in academia. But notice that this dismantling of tenure is happening as #academia shows even the slightest signs of diversifying, and it is led by Republicans.
Many science grad students direct their anger at "tenure." Why organize to protect tenure when it has protected our harassers?
GA, SC, (+ more to come) aren't removing harassers. Their "getting rid of tenure" prevents our generation from ever getting that stability in #academia
[organize to save and restructure higher ed with your local union and @HigherEdLabor. We need more people reaching out to their colleagues, doing communications, writing policy, contacting their reps. Many hands make light work, and also organizing is the most meaningful work]
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