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Thursday, August 16, 2018
Seeing The New Academics - Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed
The structures that support academia have not kept up with the emerging importance of non-faculty educators. Our language is running behind the reality. Professional associations have not evolved or adapted quickly enough to accommodate the growing community of non-faculty academics working as learning professionals. The old ideas of staff and faculty divide still persist in thousands of ways, both big and small. Career paths, professional recognition, and protections of academic freedom must still be negotiated on a case-by-case and individual basis. We are all making this up as we go along.
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/seeing-new-academics