Kristi Noem fired after disastrous Dept of Homeland Security secretary tenure

https://misryoum.com/us/us/kristi-noem-fired-after-disastrous-dept-of-homeland/

NEWYou can now listen to US News Hub MISRYOUM News articles! We can now openly admit what has been unfolding before our eyes for a year: that Kristi Noem was an utter, complete, total catastrophe, her tenure in charge...

#Kristi #Noem #fired #after #disastrous #Dept #Homeland #Security #secretary #tenure #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

#SaveYouAClick: Odds are it will, especially in red states. I'd say sooner you can get out the better, if in the market, apply elsewhere (overseas preferably).

> Oklahoma Is 'Phasing Out' Tenure. Will the Idea Catch On? https://www.chronicle.com/article/oklahoma-is-phasing-out-tenure-will-the-idea-catch-on

#HigherEd #academia #jobs #work #labor #tenure #BoycottOklahoma

Tenure to be eliminated at many public colleges in Oklahoma

https://dailynous.com/2026/02/06/tenure-to-be-eliminated-at-many-public-colleges-in-oklahoma/

(I know some other states are working on similar agendas, but is Oklahoma the first to do it by executive order?

Or did Texas already do this?)

#HigherEd #Academia #Tenure

I wish #tenure and #tenuretrack #academic #faculty in R1s who constantly complain about their job would all quit. As someone who has spent significant time in private industry and would love to spend the rest of their #career #teaching and doing #research, it's one of the most frustrating things to hear. Please stop telling me how awful your high status, privileged job is.

#academia #professors

*guitar ballad music plays*
Me applying for #tenure:
YOU MAY CALL ME A DREAMER ! CAAAALL ME A FOOL! JUST A BLUE-EYED BELIEVER IN YOOOOU

AAAAAND I'D DIIIE FOR THAT SOMEOOONE! IN THE BLIIIINK OF AN EEEYE SO TELL ME JUST TELL ME, JUST WHAT KIIINDA FOOOL AAAAAM I?

It's only shortly past 8 in the morning, but I need to #vent.
I just overheard a new #tenure track assistant #professor talk about how they got there.
In a nutshell, they haven't left the department since their master studies and stumbled into the tenure process by accident.

I am (kinda) happy for them, but I am also so incredibly fucking jealous!

I have switched not only university but country after every degree/job, so by now I live in country number 5 since starting by studies.
The longest I've been in the same country was during my #PhD plus pandemic and unemployment for over a year.

Especially older #academics don't seem to understand this, because whenever I mention any of this I encounter completely blank stares. Note, I'm in a department where most senior staff is local and celebrating 15-35+ years at the same employer.

I'm in my mid-30, I don't want to move every few years when my temporary contract ends.
I want to be able to plan more than 1-2 years at a time.

I absolutely love doing #research, but I hate so many aspects of #academic culture or what has been normalized over the years for #AcademicLife.
I plan on staying in #academia despite of it.

#Rant over, time to calm down and sip my tea.

#PostDocLife #PhDLife #academicchatter #MyLifeAsAnAcademic #AcademicMastodon #tenuretrack

How to avoid reading – and how to avoid finishing a book.
👉 https://philosophics.blog?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social/2025/11/05/how-to-avoid-reading/
Whilst mired in adminstrivia, I happened upon The Intellectual Origins of Modernity – a favourite whipping boy (or girl, lest I come across as sexist).

I asked ChatGPT to parse it for me, and it told me – despite it is well structured and written – to skip it.

#books #reading #amwriting #technology #chatgpt #ai #critique #philosophy #history #modernity #society #origins #Publishing #tenure #academia #blog

On the one hand, I know that #academic institutions have changed and evolved.

OTO(ther)H, I just found 3(!) new organizations that came online relatively recently to deal with "misalignment between traditional academic metrics for hiring, #tenure, and advancement" which has been a problem since the 1980's.

(And we still can't deal with anything actually #interdisciplinary!)

WTF!?

#science #academics #AcademicChatter #bullshit #InstitutionalInertia #AcademicInstitutions #institutions