"Shadow work" in academia

[Maite Taboada <mtaboada@sfu.ca>]

The article below was initially sent to the Academic Women list. I think 
the issue is important to us all.

"Shadow work" is the work that we do and that used to be performed by 
somebody else paid to do it. Think travel reimbursements, contracts, 
budgets, financial management, room bookings... Cornell is thinking 
about how shadow work impacts academics, and how it takes them away from 
their primary duties of teaching and research.

If this issue resonates with you, I encourage you to get in touch with 
SFUFA. In the Academic Women list there was also discussion of how this 
affects APSA and CUPE employees. Faculty members, with the help of 
centralized online systems, are performing jobs that would have probably 
gone to those unions.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/11/08/cornell-launches-effort-cut-administrative-red-tape-starting-shadow-work

Cheers,
- Maite

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Maite Taboada
Professor
Department of Linguistics
Simon Fraser University
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