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UVA reinstates president after corporate right wingers who engineered her ouster were themselves defeated (resigned), Inside HigherEdChris Newfield at Remaking the University explains who really controls "public" universities or "Yes Virginia, there really is a ruling class, and you are not in it." More from Chris and Remaking about recent Bad Day(s) at UVa here and an all-too relevant /UCLA biz school/privatization background story here.
(Ed Note, VCV: UVa is a huge story worth a post of its own and an important, connected chapter in the complex, continuing Whither U saga of privatization, ed-tech, Taylorization and the corporate university. I've mentioned elsewhere the corporate connection between Sullivan ouster/ UVa and Sissy Bradford firing / Texas A&M-SA stories.
Reality check on corporate profits and wages, at all time high and low respectively, Business Insider
Adjunctiverse
... and more adjunct authors: Christina McCale's Waiting for Change and Debra Leigh Scott's Other Likely Stories, with a companion piece to 'Junct: the Movie in the works to tell stories not filmed (Ed Note, VCV: could this become a separate feature? Books / authors to nominate? Naming suggestions, please.... adjuncts get it write?)
Here is a new one, an ad for a pt/adjunct to evaluate other adjuncts, at Harper College in suburban Chicago. [Note, JB: this is the college that, back in the 80's, challenged cc adjuncts very right to unionization under the education employment relations law there and delayed cc adjunct unionization in IL for nearly two decades until we could change the law].
Provost at StonyBrook, SUNY, fires longterm adjuncts for supposedly now not having proper credentials. Chronicle Forums. This behavior has happened at other places, usually in retaliation for faculty being too demanding or a desire to weaken the union [personal experience, jb]. (Ed Note, VCV: See also, Sissy Bradford TAMUSA firing)
- Career Ed Corp forced by accreditors to defend its claims on job placement for SF campus, California Culinary Academy. Source: The Bay Citizen
- For-profits discuss shrinkage of federal funds and their response
- A letter to CHE from a faculty member at a for-profit
- Attorneys general in 15 states investigate internet marketing company that connects for-profit college clients with service members and veterans looking to spend their military education benefits. Source: The Bay Citizen
Union/s Matter/s
- Interesting debate in the Nation on union strategies in the wake of the loss in Wisconsin.
- NLRB to reconsider grad unionization at private universities
Bookmark Chicago Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor, for news, contacts and links related to non-tenure track, "precarious" faculty, and for back issues of the periodic news aggregator, COCAL Updates. Email joeberry@igc.org to be added to the list.
See COCALInternational.org for information on the Tenth (X) Conference on Contingent Academic Labor in Mexico City, August 10-12, 2012 at Univ. Nacional Auto. de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City. PS: another reason to go to COCAL X in Mexico City: progressive politics still thrive there
Join International COCAL listserv online. If this presents problems, e-mail vtirelli@aol.com or send "Subscribe" to adj-l@adj-l.org
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