But nobody is reporting what people think campus by campus

Most university managements run the annual VOICE staff survey, which provide colour coded reports on the campus mood. Good, bad and indifferent, the results are rarely released, (Scott Bowman, the recently retired VC of CQU was an exception) presumably lest people (who CMM?) make uncharitable comparisons between morale on comparable campuses.

This makes the overall mood of HE workers hard to read –and makes the case for the National Tertiary Education Union’s own staff survey, about to start. Regrettably, results aren’t broken down by institution, at least not publicly.