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  • Professors on contingent contracts are ESSENTIAL 

    Until faculty realize that their vocation as MAGISTERS and DOCTORS, as those with TEACHING authority, actually transcends the MINISTERIAL and CURIAL power of adMINistrators and trustees, they will continue to launch little more than empty critiques of neoliberalization. Continue reading

    Professors on contingent contracts are ESSENTIAL 

  • Welcome to the Edu-Factory Collective

    We are amidst a great thaw, where the taboo topic of academic exploitation, once privatized and blamed on “failed” individual scholars, is being rendered unavoidable and recognized as a systemic and pervasive problem. More accurately, the university’s most vulnerable academic… Continue reading

    Welcome to the Edu-Factory Collective

  • A Congressman Asks for Adjuncts’ Stories, and Responses Pour In | Vitae

    “This eForum is an opportunity for adjuncts and other contingent faculty to inform the Congress about what’s happening on the ground with higher education,” said Miller, a Democrat, in a news release. “I think there is a huge lack of… Continue reading

    A Congressman Asks for Adjuncts’ Stories, and Responses Pour In | Vitae

  • Brain Drain and Brain Gain

    In a new book, “Paying the Professoriate,” to be published this month, Mr. Altbach and his co-editors examine academic salaries, contracts and benefits in publicly funded universities in 28 countries. They depict a world increasingly divided “into two categories —… Continue reading

    Brain Drain and Brain Gain

  • [Harper’s Index] | July 2013

    This months grab bag of statistics from the always wonderful Harpers Magazine:   …Portion of university teaching positions that are filled by graduate students or adjunct faculty : 3/4   Percentage of college professors teaching online courses who do not believe students… Continue reading

    [Harper’s Index] | July 2013

  • Meet your new professor: Transient, poorly paid

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions By Barbara Raab, Senior Producer, NBC News This is the time of year many high school seniors are getting their long-awaited, highly anticipated college acceptance letters. See on inplainsight.nbcnews.com Related articles Organizing Adjunct Faculty… Continue reading

    Meet your new professor: Transient, poorly paid

  • MOOCs as capital-biased technological change

    Last week my Twitter feed briefly turned into a kind of massively open online course about MOOCs, in response to this thoughtful critique by Aaron Bady of an earlier post by Clay Shirky advancing an optimistic view of the role that… Continue reading