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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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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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Blight and the Story of Blight
We finished the third day of our Homeless Adjunct Road Trip, and are, as I type this, in a cabin in Maumee State Park, outside of Toledo, OH. We left Pittsburgh early Monday afternoon, after spending two days there, meeting … Continue reading
Posted in Homeless Adjunct Road Trip, The Breakdown of the American University System
Tagged adjunct, adjunct labor abuse, adjunct teaching, Art and Activism, art-making, Colleges, Contingent faculty, contingent labor, creativity, Edu-factory, factory collapse, Higher Education, Higher learning, Homeless Adjunct, part-time professors, precarious labor, universities, universitiies, university professors
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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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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
Posted in The Breakdown of the American University System
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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