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WholeEnchilada@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
I would like to see this written up for a wider context because it’s not just a science problem. The Humanities, Arts, and pretty much the whole campus is the same in this way. It’s why I left academia. Universities are set up wrong because employee incentives make it a sort of feudalistic system. All you have to do is work as a professor for a few years and discover it’s pretty much the same as grad school. You don’t really collaborate with the people you work with every day in person. All your contacts are outside your home campus. Nothing useful for the world happens on the campus. You do that outside of the campus to gain “reknown” and your outside brand gets you cred on campus. Meanwhile, on your home campus, your so-called colleagues do everything they can to block any cross-listing of courses they can because the administration counts the beans. The department needs to generate credit hours. Cross-listing is viewed as bean subtraction.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
Peep the link I shared, it’s from the Journal of Politcal Ecology. The author has more bits I’m meaning to dive into.
WholeEnchilada@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
I think (another reason I left academia) you missed my point. You posted to a science place. My point is that it should be cross posted to many places.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
Ha, we agree. I did misunderstand, forgive me. I don’t know honestly if I’m going to stay in this game either after this. Going to be a bit of a dice roll.
WholeEnchilada@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Well if you’re a scientist you have better paying options than i did when i left. I was in the Humanities. Still greener pastures and less bullshit for me. I guess I’ll try to be helpful: reprogram your career brain. In the real world, it isn’t all about you and your abilities or how smart you are. It’s just about what you already know from life and your special abilities you gained from work experience, plus your educational background. It was hard for me at first now it’s super easy plus im actually compensated for my work as i think is fair.