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Play Ph.D. Casino! Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 213 seconds Getting a Ph.D. is like playing the lottery, explains Monica Jacobe. After a median 10 years of study, and perhaps four or five years of job hunting, 40 percent of language PhDs will not have tenure track jobs anywhere. Related: marc, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, faculty, feminism, phd, professors, students, universities, women |
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Predatory Employment in Higher Ed Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 306 seconds "I'm 30 years old and I've never made 30 thousand a year." Monica Jacobe, who is about to finish her dissertation in American literature, describes her life as a contingent faculty member. In Part 2, she talks about her prospects for an academic job and the sorry state in which previous generations of faculty and administrations have left the profession. Related: marc, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, faculty, feminism, phd, professors, students, universities, women |
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Faculty on Food Stamps 1 Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 317 seconds A professor on public assistance. Andy Smith describes his ten years as a contingent faculty member. The vast majority of all college faculty are now hired on a contingent basis. Related: food, public, adjuncts, assistance, bousquet, colleges, faculty, professors, stamps, students, universities |
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Twilight of Academic Freedom Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 428 seconds Cary Nelson describes how the shift to a majority contingent faculty is an intellectual sea change for undergraduates as well as faculty themselves. Related: academic, marc, aaup, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, faculty, freedom, phd, professors, students, universities |
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Higher Ed, A Pyramid Scheme Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 416 seconds Higher ed employment has become a pyramid scheme, explains Michelle Masse, with mostly-male sectors at the top and mostly-female sectors at the bottom. The relationship between "feminization" of the humanities and "masculinization" of administration means we're all in the harem of the dean. Related: marc, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, faculty, feminism, phd, professors, students, universities, women |
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Faculty on Food Stamps 2 Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 452 seconds Part 2 of a professor on public assistance. Andy Smith describes his ten years as a contingent faculty member. Related: food, public, adjuncts, assistance, bousquet, colleges, economics, faculty, professors, stamps, students, universities |
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Higher Ed: Free For All Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 265 seconds In the struggle to keep up with tuition, 78% of students work while enrolled, averaging 30 hours per week. But the annual cost of everyone's public tuition in the United States is less than $50 billion, says Adolph Reed. We could pay that bill for everyone, he says--and reap substantial returns on the investment. Related: financial, marc, student, aid, bousquet, colleges, debt, loans, professors, students, tuition, universities |
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Michael Berube on David Horowitz Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 357 seconds "Between a provocateur and a buffoon." That's how Berube describes Horowitz in this interview with Marc Bousquet. Berube explains what happens when Pennsylvania experimented with Horowitz's "academic bill of rights" Related: academic, david, adjuncts, berube, bill, bousquet, colleges, faculty, horowitz, of, professors, rights, students, universities |
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Ten Million Served! Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 367 seconds "Wal-mart workers know they're being had," Michelle Masse says. "Academics don't." She argues that the call to service in higher education has been a vector for cynical exploitation by administrations, but also for willing submission to exploitative demands. This is especially the case for womenn faculty, but also for men in feminized sectors, such as the humanities. Related: marc, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, faculty, feminism, phd, professors, students, universities, women |
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We're All Workers--And We're All Intellectuals, Too Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 349 seconds Sabbaticals for nurses and accountants? "We're all workers," says Adolph Reed. "We all want the same things." Now that everyone works in the service economy, the blue-collar/white-co llar distinctions make very little sense. And recognizing that all intellectuals are workers is a step toward realizing that all workers are intellectuals. Related: marc, bousquet, colleges, intellectuals, loans, professors, students, tuition, universities |
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Michael Berube on the MLA Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 271 seconds Can the MLA and other scholarly associations do more to help an impoverished faculty? Related: higher, modern, adjuncts, association, colleges, education, faculty, language, mla, professors, scholar, students, universities |
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Berube bonus track: On blogging Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 97 seconds Video weblogs cause the demise of Western culture (at last!) Related: adjuncts, berube, blog, bloggers, bousquet, colleges, faculty, professors, students, universities, video, videoblogging |
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Trailer for howtheuniversityworks.com Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 28 seconds Trailer for howtheuniversitywork s.com, Marc Bousquet's weblog. Related: higher, marc, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, education, faculty, professors, students, universities |
