According to NCES, there are 1.5m post-secondary instructors in the United States.
Let's suppose 10% want to relocate b/c of Trump. That's 150,000 faculty. For comparison, that's:
More than half of the faculty in the UK.
The ENTIRE faculty in Australia.
THREE TIMES the number of Canadian faculty.
Let's suppose 10% want to relocate b/c of Trump. That's 150,000 faculty. For comparison, that's:
More than half of the faculty in the UK.
The ENTIRE faculty in Australia.
THREE TIMES the number of Canadian faculty.
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Dominique Baker
Everyday it becomes clearer to me that a comparative higher ed scholar needs to explain why Europe/Canada/Australia/Aotearoa will not just take on thousands of US scholars. I have to share multiple articles to help others understand this because we don't have a comprehensive essay to point to.
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Yes, some faculty will find work at non-English speaking universities, but most won't.
As a rough heuristic, let's stick with these three.
What are they going to research?
Who are they going to teach?
WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THEM?
Because NO industry ANYWHERE can expand that rapidly overnight, esp. without a plan to pay for that expansion.
Karolinska Institute in Stockholm will be able to pick and choose the best ones for moderate money.
Redistributing resources from America is positive for the world.
Get on with the programme, help building Swedish communities.
But that’s not the problem I’m addressing here.
Even if many countries use this as a recruitment opportunity, there’s simply not room for even a small fraction of us. There’s not enough global capacity for even 10% of us to move.
India, with 1.4 billion people, could probably usefully use a fair number.
Faculty size in India is roughly on par with the US (~1.5m). Where is the infrastructure to recruit and absorb a fraction of US faculty? Where are the government programs to incentivize recruitment?
“I bet US faculty could do a lot of good in X” presupposes infrastructure to support these faculty or a plan to create it. My point is this doesn’t exist.
Very simplistic approach.
For one, forgetting that other countries have things Iike immigration policies
But as a non-tenure-track faculty member, I can assure you many of us across ALL types would like to GTFO.