Kevin R. McClure explores higher education as a workplace — what it does well, what it does poorly, and what it can do to improve the professional lives of faculty and staff members.
Kevin R. McClure is an associate professor of higher education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and co-director of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges. He writes the Working Better column for The Chronicle on workplace reform in academe. His new book, The Caring University: Reimagining the Higher Education Workplace after the Great Resignation, is forthcoming from the Johns Hopkins University Press.
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The Review | Essay
Colleges have done a spectacularly bad job of managing talent.
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The Review
Moving up the ladder means dealing with endless bureaucracy. For many, it’s not worth it.
Data
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The Review | Opinion
For overburdened workers, modest reforms aren’t nearly enough.