Flipping Some Tables
Editor’s Note: This was originally published on @GracieG’s blog, The Unarmed Education Mercenary. Check out her blog for excellent posts on higher education labor and the growing adjunct activist movement. A few weeks ago, I […]
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An Adjunct Catching Fire: Rebellion Should Never Be Polite
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared over at The Consulting Editor blog following the #BurnItDown Twitter action the last weekend in September. “An Adjunct Catching Fire” was a two-part guest post by “Adjunct Mockingjay.” We are […]
Form-ing Dissent
Editor’s Note: This was originally posted over at The Unarmed Education Mercenary by the Unarmed Education Mercenary herself, @GracieG. @GracieG was one of the participants in this past weekend’s #BurnItDown Twitter action. When she is […]
#BurnItDown | Ripping Back the Veil of Exploitation in Higher Ed
The dirty secret of higher education in the United States is that the entire system depends upon the systematic exploitation of the majority – the super majority – of those who teach in its classrooms. […]
So Long and Thanks for All the Dry Erase Markers – A Teacher on Retiring at Age 27
Editor’s Note: This is the first in what we hope to be many articles by Marlana Eck. Marlana is the founder and editor of the brand-spanking-new publication, Lehigh Valley Vanguard. The mission of the Lehigh […]
PASSHE Secession Legislation Leads Down Exploitation Road: A Historical Perspective on University Governance
Editor’s Note: Raging Chicken Press received this submission from a faculty member at West Chester University yesterday. Because the faculty member is “untenured,” we were asked to publish it under the name ““untenured and deeply […]
How the American University was Killed in Five Easy Steps
A few years back, Paul E. Lingenfelter began his report on the defunding of public education by saying, “In 1920 H.G. Wells wrote, ‘History is becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.’ […]
Managerial Madness: Why Higher Education Has Lost Its Way
Editor’s Note: On May 20th, Debra Leigh Scott and Chris LaBree left Philadelphia for Pittsburgh, their first stop on their Homeless Adjunct Road Trip. They will be talking with contingent faculty in PA, OH, IN, […]
Book Review: Naomi Shaeffer Riley, The Faculty Lounges
Book review. The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get The College Education You Pay For by Naomi Schaefer Riley. Ivan R. Dee Publishers, 2011. Naomi Schaefer Riley, an outsider to academia, former […]