Philosophy & Rhetoric Jun 2024

Higher Education: Mobility, Movement, and Risk

Michael Bernard-Donals

Abstract

ABSTRACT With higher education in a state of flux, it’s time to more clearly understand what flux—mobility—means for the work of faculty at colleges and universities. With threats to shared governance, tenure, and academic freedom representing one sort of change, what would it mean for faculty to lean into the vulnerability that they are experiencing? Mobility has consequences: one of them is the risk of harm; another is the potential to destabilize concepts and entities. This article is an argument for faculty to lean into vulnerability, with all of the consequences attached to it, in order to change the trajectory of higher education in an era of flux, but recognizing that doing so will require courage and new forms of solidarity.

Journal
Philosophy & Rhetoric
Published
2024-06-28
DOI
10.5325/philrhet.57.1.0112
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