Serious question, if you're an academic in the US facing the implosion of higher ed, where do you go? I'm interested in hearing from different folks across fields. Will there be one clear winner, or do folks get cast to the winds? Is it based on field of study, what's your thinking?
=> More informations about this toot | More toots from Colarusso@mastodon.social
@Colarusso So, I was an academic who left about 6 years ago. I was a historian, but ended up working in Quality Assurance / Regulatory in a Biomedical company. I think a lot of it would be skill set based. I would love to get more folks with electronic archival / collections management skills in my dept, because the skill set matches up really well.
Ditto, a lot of our R&D and tech writers were biomed/chem/pharmacology academics before joining us. It is all about skill sets.
=> More informations about this toot | More toots from strixus@mastodon.social
@Colarusso Context: I'm in the US, and only a business SME adjunct instructor. After several last-minute rescinded offers and a wage theft situation, I retrained to join the bustling video game development industry...then the bottom fell out of that, too. I have a plan for next steps, but haven't found any pathways that look particularly robust.
I think maybe the solution is re-creating educational orgs the way they should be, and let the accumulated cruft eat itself.
=> More informations about this toot | More toots from michaelc@scholar.social
@michaelc @Colarusso
K12 publishing was where I ended up, keeping an eye on efforts like Open University.
https://www.open.ac.uk/courses
=> More informations about this toot | More toots from resipiscent@sfba.social This content has been proxied by September (3851b).Proxy Information
text/gemini