The Era of Artificial Scarcity.

UNIVERSITY & college employees; UNIVERSITY & college administration; AUSTERITY; JOHNS Hopkins University; COVID-19 pandemic; LAYOFFS; RETIREMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL ideology

The article looks at the mobilization of university employees to defend their vision of university governance in light of the austerity measures announced by John Hopkins University during the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics discussed include the planned layoffs, salary freezes and employee retirement contribution suspension in the measure, role of a forensic audit in the success of employees in challenging the decision, and the evidence of the adoption of corporate values by the university.