Administrators are still using COVID to justify the neoliberal gutting of higher education.
” — the “project of transforming higher education into an industry run on contingent faculty and student debt, rather than a public good funded by taxes” is in many places now in its final stages.The American Association of University Professors’ special report entitled “issued in May 2021, details Pandemic Opportunism 1.0.
The AAUP investigation found that university presidents at eight colleges and universities invoked “force majeure” to discontinue programs and lay off faculty without due process and boards of trustees denying shared governance — and ignoring the votes of no confidence protesting that denial — to ram through drastic cuts without faculty input.
Now the more calculated Pandemic Opportunism 2.0 is upon us, both at some of the institutions discussed in the report and at others. In this phase, administrations target “expensive” tenure-line faculty through something other than dictatorial fiat. This involves ratcheting up methods like retirement incentives to facilitate “the decades-long transition from a majority tenured to a majority nontenured faculty,” to borrow a phrase from the report. Retirements are then “non-replacements.
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