She/Her. Knauss Sea Grant Fellow 2023. Biology PhD from Georgetown University. Views expressed here are mine and not anybody else's.
Nov 22, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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.
