Some of my grad school friends just published a neat perspective! They share pros/cons of imagined alternative academic practices, from a match system for jobs to doing only arxiv-style pubs. It's a cool launch point for musing on other alternatives: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Modern academic practices reflect elements of both contingency and determinism Consideration of alternative practices can guide within-system change and large-scale restructuring
If you give it a look, they also have a survey you can take to share your opinion on the alternative practices listed in the paper, so click the link in the abstract!
I worry a bit about the proposed "alternative" practice of no tenure. Some universities already have no tenure; others are dramatically decreasing tenure track lines in favor of making faculty contingent. At the same time of political restrictions on things like "climate change" in some states.I worry a bit about the proposed "alternative" practice of no tenure. Some universities already have no tenure; others are dramatically decreasing tenure track lines in favor of making faculty contingent. At the same time of political restrictions on things like "climate change" in some states.