Links from the #KeithHoeller Collection, 2004-2010

…more recent ones are in the collection too but revisiting earlier articles seems in order. Some may be thinking of Keith's work just in terms of posts on the adj-l listserv, an occasional article and now his book, Equality for Contingent Faculty. There is actually a substantial body of work extending back 20 years or so.

Otherwise, too much is happening in the adjunctiverse to cover in depth right here and now. Besides, today is Sunday, and I already blogged two big, fat news aggregation posts, a Mayday wrap on #mobilize4equity and one on the still ongoing City College of San Francisco saga for COCAL Updates — feeds for both now on the page too. If that's not enough, a super guest post from Adjunct Justice's Ana M Fores (aka the better pay petition lady) is coming your way.

Elsewhere on the adjunct event horizon, Frank Reiser and the rest of the Nassau CC adjunct "old guard" had a reprieve and are still news. Expect letter writing reminders! New Mexico higher ed is in the news too: not UNM, the state flagship U or CNM, super-sized vo-tech turned community college (the largest in the state), but NNMC…Northern New Mexico College. Miranda Merklein, who teaches there and at will be blogging NM at Fugitive Faculty. It's on my list too, and a social media push is taking shape. Enough rambling…now for Keith Hoeller's links (which may become a permanent collection in the Reading Room)

a new collaboration on #education

…from Works & Days—Cultural Logic…HT #JoeBerry's #COCAL Updates.  No telling when or even if we will get back to updating archived updates but you can always subscribe to your own by email. Just email joeberry@igc.org

"Education for Revolution," a special issue collaboration of the journals Works & Days  and Cultural Logic has just been launched.

Works & Days, published by the English Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, explores problems of cultural studies, pedagogy, and institutional critique, especially as they are impacted by the global economic crisis

Cultural Logic has been online since 1997 and is a non-profit, peer-reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary journal publishing essays, interviews, poetry, and reviews by writers working within the Marxist tradition

This is the second collaboration between the two journals.

Joe Berry's COCAL Updates. Sept6

…a proverbial tip of the hat to Wayne Ross and Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor (and its Facebook incarnation linked below)… and a peek at what they look like before I spend an hour or so reformatting, checking and embedding links, adding images, etc. This may be less aesthetic but sure saves a lot of time, plus does double duty as a reminder to to revisit Workplace (and blog where updates appear) again for the first time.

Wayne Ross posted in Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor (Facebook) Wayne Ross 6:21pm Sep 6 COCAL Updates COCAL Updates Updates in brief and links 1. Kaplan faculty in Liverpool, England, UK unionize! From ...

Joe Berry's COCAL Updates, June 14&15

...news & links about #ContingentFaculty & #organizing in #highered. To subscribe to regular Updates, email joeberry@igc.org.  More about Joe Berry.  Updates are also archived at chicagococal.org. Follow COCAL International on Facebook. As a personal favor, Joe asks your to read and consider an appeal from a friend and fellow activist.

Going Global...
COCAL X early registration date has been pushed back to July 1: register online at cocalinternational.org

Class War University is new site collecting articles on the struggle in higher ed worldwide. "Yo soy 132: Student-led Uprising," the most recent post on the site, is an interesting interview with a professor at Univ. Metro in Mexico City about the current student movement, its history and prospects. Although the only "international" story, the blogroll on the right sidebar shows a good international selection. 


For more on global higher ed, see the International Student Movement (ISM) ~ "one world, one struggle" ~ website.

O Canada!

Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions (CGEU) Conference, Vancouver, August 2-4, 2012, also on Facebook.

The power of Quebec's good example: 


"The extraordinary student mobilization in Quebec has already sustained the longest and largest student strike in the history of North America, and it has already organized the single biggest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history. It is now rapidly growing into one of the most powerful and inventive anti-austerity campaigns anywhere in the world."


Canadian highered blogger Melonie Fullick cautions about following US example of welcoming corporate influence on education research, asking, "Is the Gates Foundation 'galvanizing' education research?"