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As an academic I feel like that I'm living in that scene in The Big Short where they see all the empty houses and know it's a bubble, but for me it's hearing about all the innovation and growth in higher education, then teaching a class where only 8/250 students show up weekly

I wish it were just a me problem, but academics now brag about having 30% attendance rates and bumping it up to 50% when there's an in-class quiz. A colleague had to teach to an *empty* room b/c nobody showed up but the seminar was being recorded for future classes.