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What If Academia Is Dying? (Rethinking the Collapse Narrative)
I keep hearing that academia is dying.
That we’re in an existential crisis.
That peer review is broken. That the system is collapsing.
And I get it.
I’ve been deeply concerned about parts of it, too—especially peer review. When it’s bad, it’s almost useless. But when it works, it’s beautiful. And hard.
Still, I don’t buy the narrative that we’re watching the death of the academic system.
Because one thing organizational theory teaches us—if we’re really paying attention—is that you can look at the same system in multiple ways. And when I step back and squint, academia starts to look like…
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