Post-secondary associations on both sides of the border report increased interest among American researchers in academic positions north of the 49th parallel.
I (US prof) would 100% take a job at a Canadian university, even if we weren’t sliding headlong into ur-fascism. The corporatization, anti-labor policies, constant erosion of faculty autonomy in how and what to teach, and the general aggressive conversion of US higher ed into a collection of anti-inrellectual authoritarian hierarchies has turned what used to be a respected and satisfying (if difficult, underpaid, and frequently organizarionally insane) profession I into a Kafkaesque parody of Office Space.
I loved my job for years. I fucking hate it now, and there are hundreds of thousands of us in this situation.
I (US prof) would 100% take a job at a Canadian university, even if we weren’t sliding headlong into ur-fascism. The corporatization, anti-labor policies, constant erosion of faculty autonomy in how and what to teach, and the general aggressive conversion of US higher ed into a collection of anti-inrellectual authoritarian hierarchies has turned what used to be a respected and satisfying (if difficult, underpaid, and frequently organizarionally insane) profession I into a Kafkaesque parody of Office Space.
I loved my job for years. I fucking hate it now, and there are hundreds of thousands of us in this situation.