Academic Burnout - Can you measure or predict it?

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I just read this article by Kevin R. McClure, associate professor of higher education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington on Academic Burnout. To quote the article “The pandemic has introduced unique challenges for faculty and staff in higher education that may make burnout even likelier to occur…Summer is normally a time of restoration for faculty and staff, and many believed that if they could just finish spring semester, they would have a chance to recover, said Renee Cramer, chair of the Law, Politics, and Society Department at Drake University, who has been researching ethics and the academic workforce as part of a three-year project. This has lead to a significant amount of additional workload for both Faculty and supporting staff for scanning, migrating, setting-up a wide-range of various online tools from dedicated Learning Management Systems to Microsoft One Note (as an example). I was sharing the dining room table with my boys and it seemed like the first 15 minutes of every lesson was a discussion back and forth on where to find the notes, files, exercises etc. This can help flag areas of concern where the needle is indicating overworked staff and then going back to Kevin’s article look at some of the ways he suggests managing this, namely: You can find more information on academic workload profiles here.

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