- They’ve been on this for a minute. More teaching + post tenure review (and contracts) plus ai supercharged productivity surveillance tools also makes professors more vulnerable to student evals, which gives admin more power to fire you. That’s the plan.
- "Imposing minimum teaching requirements...has been touted as a way to cut costs and 'better focus university resources in the classroom,' .... The notion is also gaining steam in conservative circles as a means of ensuring faculty productivity and curbing 'intellectually unserious' research."
- Unserious research will be defined the usual ways first but quickly will be anything that the political regime won’t fund. As @bakerdphd.bsky.social says more eloquently, they want federal grants to be “pork”. Not quite soft power or hard power. Managerial power.
