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MLA President Michael Berube reports on the New Faculty Majority summit and adds his suggestions for how to effectively advocate on behalf of adjunct and contingent faculty.
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Read "Hire Ed! Deconstructing the Crises in Academe," by Gregory Jay. Jay reviews the recent books on higher education by Cary Nelson, Christopher Newfield, Louis Menand, Marc Bousquet, Frank Donoghue, and Martha Nussbaum, delineating their common critique of the current political economy of the campus and its labor practices.
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In "The Trouble with Diversifying the Faculty," Walter Benn Michaels makes a spirited argument that the focus on diversity often causes a blindspot when it comes to the increasing economic inequality on campus, be it the proliferation of poorly-paid adjuncts or the rising tide of wealthy students. He argues that the "neoliberal" market logic rules higher education just as surely as it does Wall Street or the movement to bust teachers' unions, making the token inclusion of women and minorities among the "winners" in the inequality race no victory at all.
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MLA President Michael Berube reports on the New Faculty Majority summit and adds his suggestions for how to effectively advocate on behalf of adjunct and contingent faculty.
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Read "Hire Ed! Deconstructing the Crises in Academe," by Gregory Jay. Jay reviews the recent books on higher education by Cary Nelson, Christopher Newfield, Louis Menand, Marc Bousquet, Frank Donoghue, and Martha Nussbaum, delineating their common critique of the current political economy of the campus and its labor practices.
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In "The Trouble with Diversifying the Faculty," Walter Benn Michaels makes a spirited argument that the focus on diversity often causes a blindspot when it comes to the increasing economic inequality on campus, be it the proliferation of poorly-paid adjuncts or the rising tide of wealthy students. He argues that the "neoliberal" market logic rules higher education just as surely as it does Wall Street or the movement to bust teachers' unions, making the token inclusion of women and minorities among the "winners" in the inequality race no victory at all.
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