Colleges and universities, like many other employers, are seeing workers out through the door.
Do schools and universities deal with the same problems that employers face in other industries? Are there unique problems in higher education that campus leaders need to recognize and address?
Kevin McClure, associate professor of Higher Education at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, joined a recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher. EDcast of news and analysis of ED to discuss those and other questions.
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*** around exhaustion? I guess there is a story there.
googetag.cmd.push (function () Googetag.display ("dfp-ad-article_in_article");););););););););););););););););););););););););););McClure: If you had asked me in February 2020 if these were the things I would be talking about now, I would have said no. I usually concentrate on management, leadership and finance issues. I have largely focused on regional public universities and recently started a research center focused on regional schools, the Alliance for Research in Regional Colleges. Some of these problems were certainly in my radar, but it is not something to dedicate a lot of time in terms of my thought and writing.
This is what happened. It was March 2020. At that time, I was working very, very hard. I had two young children and I was exhausted. And then we enter quarantine. We were still quite optimistic that this was a kind of things in the short term. We entered the blockade, and then perhaps after that we can return to something that was closer to normal. So, without any idea that this would become an experience of several years, I basically advanced with the same things I had always planned to do. I did not adjust my goals or my workload at all. Basically, my wife and I would divide work days; I would work in the afternoon; She would work in the morning. I was more or less trying to fit in a normal work week of 50 hours in 20 hours. We were working on weekends and at night only to do everything.
and we arrive at May 2020, and there is nothing in the tank. It was not just that it was exhausted, there was also a certain level of detachment and even some cynicism related to the work that I had never experienced before. I started seeing some people at that time having some early conversations around exhaustion, and what does Burnout mean and how do you look? And while I was reading that, it was a verification list where I thought: "Ok, this is what is happening, I have reached Burnout."
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I am grateful that in my position, I had the summer months in which things began to mark a little, and I had the opportunity to reflect and reflect and reflect and reflect and, as a researcher, begin Read and learn a little about what exhaustion means. I experienced. I have been talking to other people in higher education and people tell me the same, that this was not a unique experience, and it is possible that you need to prepare this fall about how people will feel c
