Tell FacultyLeaks.com Your Story
We know you have one.
FacultyLeaks.com is an anonymous dispatch from inside higher education. Some identifying details have been changed. The dysfunction has not.
Since we launched, the messages have been coming in. In our DMs on X and Substack. Readers who recognize their own institutions in these pages. Readers who say: I have a version of this story. Readers who share it privately because they can’t share it any other way.
We’ve heard enough to know: it’s not just us.
So we’re opening the floor.
If you have a story — a hiring committee, a curriculum vote, a performance review, a faculty meeting, a dean’s memo, a rigged search, a grievance weaponized against the wrong person, a DEI training that made you question your career choices — we want to hear it.
We will read everything. We will publish the most instructive ones. We won’t use your name, your institution’s name, or the names of anyone involved. But the best protection is yours — change anything identifying before you hit send. We’re not a vault. Protect yourself accordingly.
Keep it under 250 words. One incident, specific details, no editorializing. True stories only. We’re not a creative writing workshop. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity.
Send your story to: facultyleaks@proton.me
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One request: tell us what happened, not what it meant. The meaning tends to be obvious.
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Since you're requesting "stories," do they have to have actually happened? You don't specify. Or can we come up with what we'd've liked or hated to've occurred, then simply place the tale in an appropriate academic setting along with the requisite villains (them) and heroes (us)?