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Why Professional Development Matters, a guest blog by Lydia Snow
From Founder of ‘Junct Rebellion and “The Homeless Adjunct” blog, Debra Leigh Scott: “As many of you know, “The Homeless Adjunct” is the blog of ‘Junct Rebellion, which is an organization founded to raise awareness of the many ways in … Continue reading
Posted in The Breakdown of the American University System
Tagged 'Junct: The Trashing of Higher Ed. in America, academic conferences, Academic instruction, academic professional development, adjunct, Adjunct Activism, Adjunct Faculty, contingency, contingency in academia, corporatization of universities, labor abuse in academia, Lydia Snow, professional development, The Homeless Adjunct, universities, University
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Law and the Labor-Abused
These pages have discussed many aspects and problems of what has happened to America’s scholarly class, and how the casualization of the profession of the academic has ruinous repercussions throughout not only higher education in the U.S., but through American … Continue reading
Posted in Social and Economic Inequality, The Breakdown of the American University System
Tagged 'Junct: The Trashing of Higher Ed. in America, Adjunct Faculty, adjuncts, College, corporatized higher education, Daylin Leach, documentary, education, Faculty Labor Abuse, higher ed documentaries, Higher Education, Junct, Junct Rebellion, Labor abuse, labor laws, law, laws and labor abuse, PA legislature, pro-corporate legislators, pro-worker legislation, progressive voters, University, voting
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You Call This Progress?
I was appalled to read the Chronicle article about the AAUP “plan” to provide “Better Pay, Job Stability, and a Career Path for Contingent Faculty” — to present this plan as anything but the atrocity it is…well, I am shocked and … Continue reading
Posted in The Breakdown of the American University System
Tagged AAUP, Adjunct Faculty, adjunct faculty labor abuse, Colleges, corporate colonization of universities, Corporatism, Faculty exploitation, faculty unions, Homeless Adjunct, Joshua Boldt, MLA, universities, university labor exploitation, university professors
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Managerial Madness: Why Higher Education Has Lost Its Way
While Chris LaBree and I were on the first leg of our Homeless Adjunct road tour, the updated list of university president salaries was released from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Here we were, traveling the area often called “The … Continue reading
Posted in The Breakdown of the American University System
Tagged adjunct, Adjunct Faculty, adjunct labor abuse, Benjamin Ginsburg, Chronicle of Higher Ed, College, College President salaries, college presidents, Contingent faculty, contingent labor, Department of Education, education, Higher Education, Joe Biden, Johns Hopkins, The Fall of the Faculty, The Rust Belt, U.S. Government, University, university administration, university administrator, Vice President
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On the Road….
The first of the Homeless Adjunct road trips is about to begin. Chris and I leave tomorrow from Philadelphia, heading for Pittsburgh. We will get there sometime Saturday evening. May 20, we will be meeting with people from the Occupy … Continue reading
Posted in Homeless Adjunct Road Trip, The Breakdown of the American University System
Tagged adjunct bankruptcy, Adjunct Faculty, adjunct poverty, Adjunct Professors, adjunct teaching, Adjuncts and homelessness, Colleges, Contingent faculty, education, Higher Education, Homeless Adunct, universities
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Being a Stupid Slut
When I was a teenager, many years ago, my boyfriend’s roommate had a girl he used to call regularly for sex. He would wake up in the morning, and without even leaving his bed, he would call her if he … Continue reading
Posted in The Breakdown of the American University System
Tagged 'Junct: The Trashing of Higher Ed. in America, Adjunct Faculty, adjunct faculty labor abuse, Adjunct Faculty Labor Exploitation, Adjunct Faculty Unions, adjunct poverty, Adjunct Professors, adjunct teaching, College, Edu-factory, Labor Exploitation, Non-tenure track professors, NTT professors, part-time professors, The Homeless Adjunct, University, University breakdown, University corruption
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The Homeless Adjunct Tour is Announced
In the last few months, the ‘Junct team – Chris LaBree and I – have traveled to NYC, D.C. (twice!) and to Chicago in order to show clips of the documentary and to give talks about the project, about adjunct/contingent … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Junct: The Trashing of Higher Ed. in America, 2255 Films, Adjunct Faculty, Adjunct Faculty Labor Exploitation, Adjunct Faculty Unions, Adjunct Professors, Can You Spare a Little Social Change, Colleges, Contingent faculty, Faculty Labor Abuse, Higher Education, HIgher Education in the United States, Junct Rebellion, Labor Exploitation, New Faculty Majority, Professors, The Homeless Adjunct, Working for Change in Higher Ed.
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Academia Occupied: The Academic As “Other” in Corporate Colonialism
The term “occupy” is all over the news now, with the Occupy Movement gaining power and momentum across our country, and linked in solidarity to the occupy movements that began in the Middle East. There is a strong wave of … Continue reading
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