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The era of fully automated research has arrived.
American colleges and universities have traditionally encouraged free speech. Recent dismissals of professors are eroding their commitment to this core mission.
Clear, actionable feedback can help students learn.
Quantitative indicators fall short of recognising and rewarding the many aspects on which a healthy scholarly ecosystem depends.
Fifty to 80% of undergraduate teaching in Australia is done by casual or sessional staff
Academic authorship was never straightforward. Now ChatGPT is making it even more complicated.
Universities are still patriarchal institutions, with men dominating senior leadership positions. Systemic mechanisms are needed to ensure all our future leaders are able to flourish.
Academics described their universities as exploitative, oppressive, toxic and fiscally driven. They felt themselves being dehumanised and demoralised by management. Most reported feelings of burnout.
Reports of big university budget surpluses appear to undermine calls for their federal funding to increase. But a closer look at how the surpluses were achieved reveals why change is needed.
The problem of insecure employment for academics came to a head during the pandemic. The neglect of this issue is eroding our intellectual capital along with education and employment opportunities.
When working from home, women struggled more than men to find time for the sustained effort needed to produce good, publishable research. Lack of thinking time is a problem for all knowledge workers.
Talk of “breaking down the barriers” is all too often a cover for breaking down academic disciplines to create administrative flexibility.
While the official figures are lower than earlier estimates of job losses, they also show certain types of employees – casual, non-academic and younger staff – bore the brunt of the staff cuts.
Changes to National Employment Standards have done little for casual staff hoping for conversion to ongoing positions. A comprehensive review of university work and employment is long overdue.
While 18 universities suffered medium to high financial impacts, the incomes of eight increased or were stable. Overall revenue fell 5% – less than feared – but 35,000 staff lost their jobs.
When academics were asked to draw, write and reflect on their career journeys, the results were revealing. While men were free to focus on their careers, the picture was more complicated for women.
The court found the university was unjustified in censuring the academic for initial conduct that was protected as an exercise in intellectual freedom. But his response to disciplinary action wasn’t.
Academics in all areas have deep concerns about their ability to undertake research during the pandemic and the flow-on effects of this. Women and early career researchers were particularly hard hit.
Student experience or satisfaction surveys are not a reliable guide to teaching performance. Even worse, anonymous survey responses are at times little better than university-facilitated hate speech.
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Associate Professor in Education, University of Newcastle
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Senior Research Officer, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Cape Breton University
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Professor of Nursing, Southern Cross University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant professor of psychology and education, University of Wisconsin-Stout Polytechnic
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University
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Marian Baird is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Employment Relations, University of Sydney
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Professor of Employment and Industry, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor of Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Ethics and Labour Relations, University of Regina
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Professor and Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor Learning Teaching and Quality, RMIT University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Management, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor, Psychology, Bond University
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Professor of Gender, Work and Employment Relations, ARC Future Fellow, Business School, co-Director Women, Work and Leadership Research Group, University of Sydney