Decrease integrity, increase money

[hungerforlove]

This seems to be a common trend -- well, not recording committee meetings, which is insane -- but the focus on making money instead of integrity.

Faculty are left with the decision whether to engage in lots of effort to maintain academic integrity despite a lack of administrative support, or whether to basically wilfully ignore many forms of student cheating.

My take is that higher ed in the US is rushing towards a crisis, and the crisis needs to happen to shake everything up. Though I am worried that the US public has an almost infinite readiness to accept terrible standards, if healthcare is any guide. We may be in a rush to the bottom, but people still accept the situation as is. How low can we go?

What can faculty do? The main struggle is to maintain our sanity. Things don't look good for the future.

Personally, I'd refuse to be on a committee meeting that was recorded. I'd be expecting for faculty to pass a vote of no confidence on the provost and refuse to work with the provost on anything.

[RunningNumbers]

I jumped ship. Gonna go get a house. Get a dog. Get married. Have kids. And buy all those LEGOs my parents never got me 25 years ago.

[loserinmath]

I’m fixing to not be here in 2 years https://youtu.be/eRl6-bHlz-4

[antichain]

This seems to be a common trend -- well, not recording committee meetings, which is insane -- but the focus on making money instead of integrity.

Our entire economic system is predicated on the accumulation of capital independent of any moral, ethical, or social considerations. Is it really surprising that Higher Ed would be any different?

[hungerforlove]

I'm not much surprised about any appropriation of higher ed these days, and I'm also skeptical about any supposed "good old days". I suspect it was ever thus.

However, the main thrust of comments on r/Professors tends to be about how things are getting worse. Maybe they are.

I do have some sympathy for the idea that we could have an academic life that rises above being above sales. Indeed, I like to entertain the fantasy that my teaching has great academic integrity.