Also, if you’re on a hiring committee or dealing with admissions, please be understanding of the applicants who are in this situation through no fault of their own

sciences are the ones most vulnerable, but they’re not alone: programs and positions highlighting race and gender studies will be especially targeted, if you haven’t already felt it—anything not in service of their narrow understanding of instrumentality.

Support each other, understand the moment.

probably signals that our university’s in its death throes, but I also feel like we’re one of the canaries in the coal mines, here. This will happen elsewhere, especially (but not only) to SLACs. Tenure is no longer safe, let alone TTs (with variance per institution). The humanities and social

to academics at other universities: everything coming out of our president’s office has either been a euphemistic repackaging or a bold-face lie. He’s a former high-level executive of a multibillion-dollar company and the neoliberal model of education privileging specific programs is clear. This

which also places me in a position to speak as most of the faculty have been offered conditional NDAs and severance provided they stay quiet— severance packages, which, given those offered to early retirees last semester, are almost certainly appallingly paltry. This should be read as a warning sign

member to carry more than their fair share; the Departments of Political Science and History also left with only 1 member each to carry their programs. I was part of an earlier round of layoffs(9) at the end of fall, so I’m in the slightly better position of having advanced knowledge of my situation

colleagues. JU was a liberal arts college and the cuts were specifically directed at dismantling those liberal arts components: the College of Fine Arts (which had a substantial endowment): gone; the Humanities: absolutely destroyed, Philosophy cut as a major and left with only a singular faculty

ECR TTs who’ve been asked to shoulder far more responsibilities than they should’ve only to be rewarded with unemployment. The previous week I’ve had several faculty and students, separately, crying in halls & offices, forced to reconsider career paths and saying premature goodbyes to classmates and

as to be nonfunctional, leaving singular faculty members in charge of entire departments and contracting classes out to adjuncts. No warning was given in advance and it’s already too late in the hiring cycle for these faculty members to apply for jobs elsewhere. People close to retirement let go &

faculty or department chairs. Faculty have been completely blindsided: department chairs laid off, faculty who’ve been here since the ‘90s let go without so much as an apology, wonderful professors who’ve dedicated so much to teaching, entire programs slashed and others eviscerated to such an extent

Thanks for putting this list together, Audrey! Would you be able to add me?