College Faculty Are Under Pressure to Say and Do the Right Thing – The Stress Also Trickles Down to Students
Lee Ann Rawlins Williams | 22 October 2025 | The Conversation
Heavy teaching loads, shrinking university budgets and expanding workload expectations have fueled stress and burnout among professors and other university employees in recent years.
Now, an increasingly polarized political climate, as well as emerging concerns around university funding cuts, self-censorship and academic freedom, has created new pressures for university and college employees.
The result is an academic profession caught in the crosscurrents of culture and politics, with implications that extend far beyond the classroom….