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Carolyn Dicey Jennings
@cdj.bsky.social

A well reported article that shows the pressure facing UC faculty in recent years. Student body has grown considerably (almost 30% in last 15 years), while faculty growth has been stymied due to “funding shortages,” all while senior management has “more than doubled” www.sacbee.com/news/local/e...

sacbee.comUC is hitting its enrollment targets. But permanent faculty hiring lagsFaculty say the University of California’s reputation for academic excellence and its contribution to new ideas and innovations is at stake.

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Carolyn Dicey Jennings
@cdj.bsky.social

Unfortunately one issue with management bloat is that you get an explosion of meetings. I’m sure their days are full and they work hard even if it’s not an efficient way of doing things.

Carolyn Dicey Jennings
@cdj.bsky.social

“more than two-thirds of early-career faculty reported seriously considering leaving UC or academia altogether…Faculty’s perceptions of their working conditions had shifted negatively in recent years…A mix of workload pressures…and concerns about institutional decline had contributed to this trend.”

farketmemiz.bsky.social
@farketmemiz.bsky.social

"over the last couple of years, with the rise of generative artificial intelligence, Nicolazzo and their colleagues in the English department have been putting in extra hours to figure out how to teach writing and critical thinking" .......