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- explanantia
- The Adjunct Crisis
- Diane Ravitch's blog
- Signals from Mars
- Higher Ed Hub
- The Consulting Editor
- tressiemc
- Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor
- The Red Phoenix
- GameMakerBlog
- we hunted the mammoth
- Bryan Alexander
- Philosophers for Change
- Seattle Education
- swimponypa.wordpress.com/
- Tenure, She Wrote
- n1academy.wordpress.com/
- ACADEME BLOG
- Great Ape Thoughts
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Recent Posts
- Saying Farewell to David Graeber, Occupy Wall Street Activist, Anthropologist, Author
- How American Universities Have Destroyed Scholarship in the U.S.
- There Is No Such Thing As An Adjunct Professor
- Should Everything Be Corporatized? “Family Values” Re-Imagined.
- Why Do We Accept Labor Abuse? On Learned Helplessness, and the Viet Cong
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There Is No Such Thing As An Adjunct Professor
Nearly three years have passed since I announced my departure from academic “adjunct” employment, listing my plans for reconstructing my life once I was no longer living the life of a precariously-employed scholar. I’ve been silent here more than I … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Exiting the Edu-Factory, Leaving academia, The Breakdown of the American University System, Workplace Mental Health
Tagged #'JunctRebellion, #Anxiety, #Depression, #HomelessAdjunct, #LaborAbuse, #Mentalstress, #PTSD, #WorkandMentalStress, #WorkplaceStree, adjunct, College, University
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Why Do We Accept Labor Abuse? On Learned Helplessness, and the Viet Cong
I come from an abusive and dysfunctional family. For the first seven years of my life, my parents abandoned me to the care of my grandparents and a great aunt, and pretty much anyone else who would feel obligated or … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Exiting the Edu-Factory, Leaving academia, The Breakdown of the American University System
Tagged 'Junct: The Trashing of Higher Ed. in America, Academia, adjunct, colonization, contingent, Corporatism, Corporatized Universities, Debra Leigh Scott, emotional abuse, Higher Education, Labor abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, The Homeless Adjunct, University
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The Stupid Slut (Finally) Walks Away
A few days ago, an article in The Guardian by Alastair Gee, hit the internet. In it, the stories of adjunct faculty in desperate poverty are told, once again. Year after year after year, the situation in American academia … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Alt-Ac, Exiting the Edu-Factory, Leaving academia, Social and Economic Inequality, The Breakdown of the American University System
Tagged Academia, Adjunct Activism, Alt-Ac, contingency, Contingent faculty, contingent labor, Debra Leigh Scott, Junct Rebellion, Leaving academia, Stupid Slut, Stupid Slut (Finally) Walks Away, The Homeless Adjunct
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