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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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The Homeless Adjunct 