Dr. Michael Bernard-Donals, the Executive Director of the CTRW, was recently interviewed by Diego Alegría, a PhD Candidate in Literary Studies at UW-Madison and Mellon-Public Humanities Fellow, about Bernard-Donals’ recent book The Vulnerability of Higher Education (2023).
Bernard-Donals and Alegría discuss the ongoing precarity in higher education that has become more common in recent years. “We’re talking about it in terms of the elimination of tenure protections or the threat of the elimination of tenure protections for faculty members,” Bernard-Donals says. “That precarity is visible in terms of the job insecurity of non-tenure track faculty and instructional staff. It’s seen in the reach in from legislatures around the country, on what faculty members can teach, or what they can say in public spaces.”
You can find this interview at WORT’s website, on Soundcloud, and in your podcast feeds. Please give it a listen!