In one of my last posts, I made the claim that if there were any cuts to higher education because of lessons learned from the pandemic, it would be among faculty and not among diversity officers, or marketing specialists.
You see, in America, faculty are considered non-essential. Only administrative staff and the maintenance people who support them are essential. This isn't only the opinion of my institution, but that of the United States government.
Let me give an example. My institution is spread over 250000 square miles. That means a lot of sites to cover. If an administrator or maintenance person needs a school vehicle to travel from place to place, no problem. The government considers that they are traveling for business purposes. If an instructor does the same thing, the government taxes them for the privilege. It's not much, depending on how much other income someone has, but the government is still charging these rural teachers, who it claims they need, about 15 cents a mile if they use school transportation. The rationale is that they are not conducting the essential business of the institution. They are considered non-essential. If the government feels that way about instructors, why should the institution treat them any differently?
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