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Has the ‘great resignation’ hit academia?

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I'm surprised how very few departments within most universities actually make money. If you had a company where most products lost money you would stop producing them. Universities have a lot of departments and degrees that bleed money. I don't understand how anybody thinks that you can have good wages like this. I worked as an Econ professor and visiting academic in top Business Schools in Latin America and the East…

Why are you judging universities as a business? Profit is not everything my dude. You seem to be biased due to your background as an economist.

Re: Has the ‘great resignation’ hit academia?

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Workers in universities are broadly divided into two categories. Academics, which are usually under the direction of the Provost, and Administration, which is just a bucket for everyone else. From my experience people in the academics side are treated in a completely different manner than administration. If the great resignation were to hit academia it would probably happen on the administration side as those personnel of treated like garbage, underpaid and understaffed, and shit on by every person with a Dr. in front of their name. When I was working at Regis as a software developer they wouldn't pay me more than $65k/year when the going rate was $85k for a Jr. After 5 years as a software dev there I jumped ship and got a dev job with a Sr. title for $120k. They've never been able to replace me with a better dev because no one will work for those kind of poverty wages in Denver.
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