Academic Writing Amplified

Bonus: Your Relationship With Your Institution In 2025


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Universities have been around for over a thousand years. They’ve persisted through war, famine, plague, natural disasters, vast shifts in people’s beliefs about them and what they are for. 

That’s because universities are self-preserving. They adapt.  

Look right now at how your university is adapting. Are they partnering with you to solve problems? Are they saying “keep your heads down and pivot”? Are they saying “don’t worry we’ve got this” but aren’t actually in conversation with you about how? Are they placing the burden of adapting squarely on YOUR shoulders?

In 2025, you need to think carefully about your relationship to your institution and DECIDE what it is going to be.

Here are some questions to help you get started:

  1. What is my responsibility to my institution, and what is its responsibility to me?

  2. What are my values? What are my institution's values (the ones it is showing you right now, not the ones in the strategic plan)? How are these aligned or misaligned?

  3. If your institution is not bending over backwards to save you, how much energy should you be using to save it?

There is no one “right” way to relate to your university. YOU get to decide. The university and your position in it is just one container through which to do the work. YOU get to decide your relationship to the container.

 

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