This brings us to February. First thing one morning the new chair calls me into her office & tells me that she has decided not to renew my contract so she can use my funding line to hire a lecturer to teach writing. She’d already sent the letter to the president
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That’s four lines total to hire writing instructors & no replacement for the TT philosopher though the program continued to grow throughout this period. All classes making, overrides, matriculation, etc etc etc
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Now, this decision had nothing to do with me personally. I did my job above & beyond. My research output, service, & evals were all at the TT level & beyond my contractual obligations. I was deeply exploited
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My contract was not renewed because of an ideology that reduces faculty to resources, looks only at numbers, & fails to consider any human element of on-the-ground conditions in a university.
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The irony is that I can teach writing. My PhD is in Philosophy *and* literature, I have the required ENGL grad credits to teach English. My new chair has no clue. Plus my spouse is an adjunct who teaches writing, so she’ll lose that coverage too. No clue who the faculty are
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So the new chair abrogated her critical thinking skills to a computer program on one metric without even fully considering the available data on demand in philosophy - & I’m out of a job. Me & my infant son lose our insurance in May
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No one stood up for me. Everyone just personally told me what a terrible, short sighted decision this was, how awesome I am, I’m brilliant, but no action.
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Now I do think there’s an off-chance that this is somehow related to my being very vocal against anti-semitism, white supremacy, & fascism on campus. Maybe & honestly that would be more palatable
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But in all likelihood, I may have to leave academia just because it’s now dominated by an ideological commitment to myopic quantitative metrics selectively interpreted & driven by the business interests of the corporate university & its donors
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So anyway, that’s how ideological considerations resulted in my contract not being renewed even though I am a postmodern-neoMarxist
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This is awful. I’m so sorry.
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