Dear Workplace and Critical Education Supporters, Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor has just published its latest issue at http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/workplace/issue/current We are extremely pleased to announce the launch of Workplace Issue #19, “Belonging and Non-Belonging: Costs and Consequences in Academic Lives.” This special issue represents powerful narrative analyses of academic lives– narratives that are sophisticated and sensitive, gut-wrenching and heart-rendering. [...]

Critical Education has just published its latest issue at http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/criticaled. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Sandra Mathison Stephen Petrina E. Wayne Ross Co-Editors, Critical Education Institute for Critical Education Studies, University of [...]

Proposals are now being accepted for a special issue about research assistantships for the international, transdisciplinary Journal of Research Practice (JRP). Graduate students, academics, professionals, community members, and other research partners are invited to share their experiences, insights, and concerns around research assistantships. This special issue is intended to showcase the multilayered complexities of research assistantships [...]

To Know is Not Enough: Rouge Forum @ AERA Friday April 13, 2012 Vancouver, BC Videos on the ICESchannel at YouTube  (or click on links below) The Rouge Forum @ AERA  brought together world-renowned scholars, teachers, community organizers, and other activists to discuss these questions and others related to activist scholarship, social change, academic freedom, and work in the corporate [...]

Updates in brief and links 1. A good short discussion about strikes and general strikes, public and private. Appropriate for us and for Mayday. Go out and make some noise on May Day. See below. 2. Latest edition of Too Much, the newsletter about the superrich and economic inequality http://www.toomuchonline.org/tmweekly.html 3. A very good post on [...]

Bringing Real Reform to Schools — a letter from a Connecticut teacher http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Bringing-real-reform-to-schools-3532712.php State Officials Throw Out Another Pearson Test Question http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/05/02/state-officials-throw-out-another-pearson-test-question/ Pearson Defends its Tests http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/05/04/pearson-says-its-tests-are-valid-and-reliable/ No Accountability for Test-Makers http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/04/2783911/whos-accountable-for-the-fcat.html Beware Corporations Lobbying, Then Profiting from Education Reform http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2012/may/07/sandra-reinhard-beware-corporations-lobbying/ Guess When This Warning About Testing Was Written http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/guess-when-this-warning-about-testing-was-written/2012/05/06/gIQAQqEX6T_blog.html Move to Outsource Teacher Licensing Process Draws Protest [...]

The New York Times: At California State, Protesters Start a Fast Angry about tuition increases and cuts in courses and enrollment, a dozen students at California State University have taken their protest beyond marches — their usual tactic — and declared a hunger strike. On Thursday, the second day of the fast, supporters were preparing a [...]

LA Times: Cal State faculty authorizes strike The union representing California State University faculty announced Wednesday that its members have voted to authorize a two-day strike should negotiations over salary, class sizes and other issues continue to stall. The vote could result in two-day rolling strikes at the 23 campuses, most likely beginning in the fall, [...]

Female university professors make less money than males University faculties have become more inclusive of women in recent decades, though their salaries still trail those of their male counterparts, new data shows. Figures from Statistics Canada show the average salary of full-time faculty at Canadian universities was $115,513 in the 2010-11 school year. That was up [...]

Female university professors make less money than males University faculties have become more inclusive of women in recent decades, though their salaries still trail those of their male counterparts, new data shows. Figures from Statistics Canada show the average salary of full-time faculty at Canadian universities was $115,513 in the 2010-11 school year. That was up [...]

COCAL updates in brief and links from Joe Berry: 1. Faculty at U of OR get agreement on mixed bargaining unit recognition (it includes ALL contingents) joint AFT/AAUP affiliate http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/newsroom/2012PRs/UOAgree.htm 2. Yet another article supports what most of us in the union movement have long said, as wealth goes up, empathy declines http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-wealth-reduces-compassion 3. Ad for adjunct job [...]

COCAL updates in brief and links from Joe Berry: 1. Faculty at U of OR get agreement on mixed bargaining unit recognition (it includes ALL contingents) joint AFT/AAUP affiliate http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/newsroom/2012PRs/UOAgree.htm 2. Yet another article supports what most of us in the union movement have long said, as wealth goes up, empathy declines http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-wealth-reduces-compassion 3. Ad for adjunct job [...]

The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Biggest Student Uprising You’ve Never Heard Of April 23, 2012, 5:32 am By  Marc Bousquet

The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Biggest Student Uprising You’ve Never Heard Of April 23, 2012, 5:32 am By  Marc Bousquet

Manifesto for universities that live up to their missions  (to sign click here ) Publicly subsidized universities ought to fulfil three missions – teaching, research, and service to the community – as defined by their objectives and their mutual implication. For signatories of the present manifesto these missions have the following objectives: preserving knowledge as accumulated through history, [...]

Manifesto for universities that live up to their missions ( to sign click here ) Publicly subsidized universities ought to fulfil three missions – teaching, research, and service to the community – as defined by their objectives and their mutual implication. For signatories of the present manifesto these missions have the following objectives: preserving knowledge as accumulated through history, [...]

Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Report on Iran’s Nuclear Fatwa Distorts Its History” By Gareth Porter, AntiWar.com, posted April 18 “A Black Indian March for Peace, 1861-1862″ By William Loren Katz, Portside.org, posted April 16 “Why Washington’s Iran Policy Could Lead to Global Disaster: What History Should Teach Us about Blockading Iran” By Juan Cole, TomDispatch.com, posted [...]

Via Dr Petar Jandric, Senior Lecturer at the Polytechnic of Zagreb, Croatia: We would like to invite you to submit proposal for book chapter for the forthcoming book “E-learning“. The book will be published jointly by The University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and The Polytechnic of Zagreb. Please find our Call [...]

Critical Education Volume 3 Number 3 Educating Future Generations of Community Gardeners Shane Jesse Ralston Penn State University, Hazleton Abstract In this paper, I formulate a Deweyan argument for school gardening that prepares students for a specific type of gardening activism: community gardening, or the political activity of collectively organizing, planting and tending gardens for the purposes [...]

The Rouge Forum 2012 will be held at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The University’s picturesque campus is located 50 minutes northwest of Cincinnati. The conference will be held June 22-24, 2012. Conference theme: OCCUPY EDUCATION! Class Conscious Pedagogies and Social Change Proposals for papers, panels, performances, workshops, and other multimedia presentations should include title(s) and names [...]