Blogs I Follow
- RISE UP TIMES
- 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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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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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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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
The Homeless Adjunct 