{"id":431,"date":"2012-05-05T15:52:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T22:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/?p=431"},"modified":"2012-05-05T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T22:52:31","slug":"cocal-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/2012\/05\/05\/cocal-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"COCAL Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

COCAL<\/a> updates in brief and links from Joe Berry:<\/p>\n

1. Faculty at U of OR get agreement on mixed bargaining unit recognition (it includes ALL contingents) joint AFT\/AAUP affiliate
\nhttp:\/\/www.aaup.org\/AAUP\/newsroom\/2012PRs\/UOAgree.htm
\n<\/a>
\n2. Yet another article supports what most of us in the union movement have long said, as wealth goes up, empathy declines [or “the rich are different from you and me, they have more money…” and less empathy for others.]
\nhttp:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=how-wealth-reduces-compassion<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Ad for adjunct job specifies that the person not be teaching anywhere else and reactions.
\nhttp:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2012\/04\/25\/usc-job-ad-rankles-adjuncts <\/a>
\nand http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/phi-beta-cons\/296957\/adjuncts-alarmed-over-usc-job-posting-nathan-harden<\/a>
\nand http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/confessions-community-college-dean\/mandatory-monogamy-adjuncts<\/a><\/p>\n

4. More on union recognition at U of OR
\nhttp:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/quicktakes\/2012\/04\/25\/faculty-union-advances-u-oregon<\/a><\/p>\n

5. Very interesting contrast in US press coverage between French and US elections. Are there lessons here for how the press frames our issues in higher ed? (such as making the extreme privatization and casualization trends of US seem normal here, but covering them differently, if at all, overseas.) The question, of course, is how to change or challenge this press frame.
\nhttp:\/\/www.beyondchron.org\/news\/index.php?itemid=10095
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

6. Student veterans group revokes charters of locals at over 20 for-profit colleges
\nhttp:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/quicktakes\/2012\/04\/26\/veterans-group-lists-profits-where-it-revoked-charters
\n<\/a>
\n7. Capella U (a for profit) to offer college credit (classes) online to higher school students for a fee. [Is there anything not for sale if one has enough money? Didn’t Marx say something about “All that is solid melts into the air?”]
\nhttp:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/quicktakes\/2012\/04\/26\/capella-posts-25000-free-tutorials-through-sophia<\/a><\/p>\n

8. The for-profits’ war on philanthropy
\nhttp:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2012\/04\/26\/essay-profit-colleges-undermine-traditional-role-philanthropy<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/quicktakes\/2012\/04\/26\/capella-posts-25000-free-tutorials-through-sophia<\/a><\/p>\n

9. Ten Ways for a non-tenure track faculty to get fired [some of these are good, some obvious and some just plain wrong IMHO, especially the one about not trusting (some) “help” (clerical staff). They can be our best allies, individually and collectively.]
\nhttp:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/10-Ways-to-Get-Yourself-Fired\/131630\/<\/a><\/p>\n

10. New memo reveals union suppression at Kaplan U in NYC
\nhttp:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2012\/04\/19\/1084585\/-BREAKING-Kaplan-University-Suppressing-Union-Organizing-In-NYC<\/a><\/p>\n

11. Blog from union organizer at East-West U in Chicago
\nhttp:\/\/academeblog.org\/2012\/03\/21\/shooting-itself-in-the-foot-east-west-universitys-anti-union-campaign\/<\/a><\/p>\n

12. More on new play about for-profits
\nhttp:\/\/www.campusprogress.com\/articles\/theatre_of_the_absurd_former_for-profit_college_advisor_takes_his_stor\/<\/a><\/p>\n

13. Update on massive Quebec student strike agains huge tuition increases
\nhttp:\/\/www.marxist.com\/quebec-revolt-analysis-april-2012.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

14. Kaplan and other for-profits were part of ALEC and their ED task force
\nhttp:\/\/truth-out.org\/news\/item\/8766-washington-posts-kaplan-and-other-for-profit-colleges-joined-alec<\/a><\/p>\n

15. AAUP summer institute http:\/\/www.aaup.org\/AAUP\/about\/events\/si2012.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

16. More on Gren River CC (WA) adjunct apartheid event and disposable teachers
\nhttp:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2012\/04\/disposable-teachers\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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