Smashing Apples: Shock Doctrine for Public Education

…That’s What It’s All About by Kevin Mahoney in Raging Chicken Press, densely packed with information and links, briefly excerpted below. This series promises to live up to the Raging Chicken Press tagline, "if you're not angry, you're not paying attention." Don't shortchange yourself or your understanding of current issues in higher ed. If SEIU 500 (Coalition of Academic Labor)'s successes show what can be done and Green River CC vs GRAFA raises serious questions about intra-union conflict and abuses of power, then Smashing Apples (love the name) draws the line in the sand...Raging Chicken editor and writer, Kevin Mahoney notes, 

Editor’s Note: This article inaugurates a new Raging Chicken Press series by the same name: Smashing Apples. This series will focus on the ongoing attacks against public education from kindergarten through higher education both in the Pennsylvania region and across the country

... and then posits...

Pennsylvania as Ground Zero in War Against Public Education?

More Green River Adjunct Workshop coverage + CPFA Conference

Doesn't this make you want to go out and put on a conference just for adjuncts or throw a workshop of your own? When you do, be sure to let us know about it. Jack Longmate sets the example here by writing letting us know about the feature in the student newspaper and a video on YouTube.

The April 20 “The Solution to Faculty Apartheid” conference held at Green River Community College in Auburn, WA, which featured Keith Hoeller, Frank Cosco, Kathryn Re, and me, is described in a feature in the college’s student newspaper, The Current. Click on the issue and then advance to page 10 for a nice picture of Frank and Keith. 

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And now bring out the popcorn for the main feature: video of presentations on part time college faculty working conditions. Looks at the differences between full and part time faculty pay and other issues and possible solutions to these problems.