About this Blog

FacultyLeaks.com is an anonymous dispatch from deep inside higher education. The author is a tenured faculty member and department chair at a university that shall remain unnamed. Some identifying details have been changed. The dysfunction has not.

This blog reveals what rarely makes it into The Chronicle of Higher Education, faculty senate minutes, or official press releases: travel reimbursement abuse, failed and rigged hiring searches, the protection of mediocrity, union grievances weaponized against accountability, runaway administrative bloat, the slow credentialing of incompetence, and the many ways universities reward the appearance of scholarship over the real thing.

Also: the sex stuff. Because there’s always sex stuff.

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