Saturday: “Our university is an insular place, and it gets moreso each year.” (Tenured faculty, sciences)
Friday: “That place where we work has very little to do with anything academic.” (Instructor, humanities)
There also appears to be discrimination in the are of green cards: the University pays the cost for engineers, but not for others.
All of these things are important to keep in mind; it is they and not us who are not mainstream, not aware of national standards, and so on.
Axé.