Because of COVID19 and the economic fallout, 2020 academic hiring is dead in the water. Karen created a crowdsource list of hiring freezes in March, and it’s up to about 350 right now, and that doesn’t include all the campuses within state systems that are listed. Catastrophically bad conditions will certainly prevail for the 2020-2021 hiring season. What to do about it? Karen and Kel talk strategy, going postacademic, and starting the hard work of distancing yourself from the academic cult.
What do you do when you get stuck? Kel has found that her coaching clients tend to devolve into a spiral of self-loathing. But...
Karen and Kel interrupt regularly scheduled programming to amplify the Black writers, scholars, and activists they follow and learn from on a daily basis....
Adjuncts have almost entirely replaced full time faculty positions in the contemporary university system, and most adjunct positions are exploitative. Karen and Kel talk...