Associate Prof., English, UWaterloo. Trudeau Fellow 2019. Selfies, social justice, life writing, internet. She/her. Settler scholar. Cat lady. Piano tweets.
May 15, 2018 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
To my tenured colleagues: A thread on how we can be part of the solution, not just a precious relic of the way things used to be, and the manifestation of disproportionate privilege and inequity in the academy. Let's talk; please share and add. #cdnpse
A lot of us with tenure are watching PhDs leave without finishing, go into debt, suffer lousy adjunct jobs, destroy their mental health. We are watching our undergrad programs turned into scaled-up piecework. Our administrative structure turn managerial. What can we do?