Time to Talk Workloads
Alex Usher,
Higher Education Strategy Associates,
Apr 27, 2020
As is so often the case (and is so often the great failure of economists), "simple math" fails to tell the tale. And so also here. Alex Usher writes, "smaller classes mean more instructors. That could mean hiring boat-loads of graduate students and sessionals. But who has money for that during the crisis? That leaves the existing professoriate." And so, he concludes, "until the end of the emergency, most non-COVID-related research (broadly defined) should be on hold... Stop the tenure clocks, freeze promotion and merit increases (there will be no money for either, anyway). But change up the workloads." This may be what simple math says. But I can't imagine it being reality.
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