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Academia needs to die. Tenure system should be the first one to go. Maybe the covid crisis will restructure and redesign how we learn and how we educate the fut
by jelliclesfarm 6y ago
Academia needs to die. Tenure system should be the first one to go. Maybe the covid crisis will restructure and redesign how we learn and how we educate the future generations. When higher education is akin to being in an abusive relationship, it’s time to stop and reflect. And change.
- pontus 6y agoI would sort of agree. I think that the tenure process creates a lot of weird incentives. That being said, I think another part of the system that is at least as important to fix is admissions. Right now we're admitting people to PhD programs that we know the system can't absorb. Those same people go on as postdocs, and it's not really until the faculty stage where people get filtered out. One of the reasons I left academia after my PhD was that I didn't want to have to wait another ~10 years to know whether or not I had a job. If the PhD -> Postdoc transition had been a strong indicator of future success, I might have stayed in the system, but as it's currently structured there's very little information gain in getting a postdoc.