If you're a professor in the liberal arts this has to be a rough job market - tenure-track positions are on the decline nationally, many colleges and universities are cutting back on the liberal arts or even abolishing many departments - so these Texas academics are likely going to have a rough time finding another job unless they are already prominent or well-known or well-connected in their fields.
Top schools around the world are aggressively recruiting US faculty and scientists overseas. Two of my colleagues at my school are going to Europe. Canada has snagged top talent from Yale and elsewhere. A brain drain is underway
I don't doubt that's absolutely true for professors and researchers in the sciences, but I'd also guess that's less so for those in the humanities and liberal arts. We are indeed losing the cream of the crop of American science and medicine and research, at least for a generation if not longer.
You are correct. Sciences are under attack but have options and some bipartisan support. For Humanities, it’s an existential threat. I’m in Biomed science and thankful I’m retiring on my pre-Trump chosen timeline, but I lose sleep nightly worrying about my younger colleagues
It has never been easy for these folks , Including a Phd its like 9-10 years in college then several years "hey you might get on tenure track " Lord I hope some still try
JFC try running a P&L for business that needs monthly cashflow to make payroll.
If they can do something of value for somebody they’ll be fine
They already are. I suppose you don't think teaching history or literature or classical studies is all that important?
It's difficult, especially as the expectation to procure significant external funding to achieve tenure remains.
In one post you whine about how hard it is to make payroll in a cash flow business and in the next you say that anyone who does something of value will be fine. Are those cash flow businesses simply not doing something of value if they struggle?
