starting to see more mainstream think pieces about the impending higher education crash while it’s interesting to see more people paying attention to this, i haven’t seen anyone explore how university closures this impact the health of *academia*https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/scott-galloway-future-of-college.html …
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universities are still accepting enrollment and housing deposits for the fall but internally, administrators know that matriculation will be unpredictable, and high-density campus life will be impossible until a vaccine is deployed (eta spring 2021?)pic.twitter.com/ujm0H53Z5u
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in the current regime, there’s a clear (but arduous) path to earning a comfy, secure academic job “once you get tenure, you really can enjoy an upper-middle class salary for the rest of your life in exchange for about 200 hours of work per YEAR.”https://www.econlib.org/jason-brennansgood-work-if-you-can-keep-it/ …
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it’s plausible that a material proportion (>10%) of our ~1500 four year universities close their doors in short succession this puts all their faculty back on the market, which will crush an already tenuous hiring market for profs and researchers i’m v curious what happens next
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