Academics are stressed out, and some of them aren’t going to take it anymore. Pandemic-related job demands layered over budget cuts, political pressures, and public skepticism toward higher education are taking a toll. While colleges aren’t exactly experiencing the “big quit,” as the national job exodus that began during the pandemic has been labeled, once-sacred academic work is losing its luster.

Revitalizing Campus Jobs includes many of The Chronicle's best and latest reads on declining morale in the academic workplace — and how colleges can improve it.

As the authors of the collection's opening essay write:

“Faculty members, as unhappy as many of them are, are largely staying put. What has changed is how they approach their jobs.”