140 people were let go yesterday, most of them faculty. I was one of them, they just did a cost analysis and decided that my salary versus an adjuncts clearly wasn’t equitable. I’ve survivable many, many reaper visits and all of my colleagues are now gone as well, so my number was up. They are just keeping around the cheaper people, especially those who do the jobs that’s other roles should be doing. The sad thing was that this didn’t need to happen. Campus enrollment is down because of that stupid system for central scheduling that never, ever worked. We always scheduled our classes, we always had decent enrollment. It was a long, slow suicide pact that emptied the classrooms. There’s a huge amount of online students out there that want to be in classrooms. Really, really dumb. That aside I’m not at all bitter, I really liked working with my students, led them towards good outcomes so felt like all those years were worth it. That aside, about 5 years ago they started making some stupid decisions that have led to this.
Posted by @PmTxx2H-1lnx.