New issue of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor

by E Wayne Ross on March 8, 2006

logomar2006.jpgThe editors of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor are proud to announce the release of issue 7.1 at web address www.workplace-gsc.com.

In our latest installment, guest editors Mary Bryson, Stephen Petrina, and Lorraine Weir present a special issue on “Academic Freedom and Intellectual Property Rights in an Era of the Automation and Commercialization of Higher Education.” The articles include:

“Introduction to the Special Issue”
Mary Bryson, Stephen Petrina, and Lorraine Weir

“Private Pretensions”
David Noble

“Rethinking and Remaking Academic Freedom”
Claire Polster

“Coyote and Raven Talk about the Business of Education or How Did Wall Street, Bay Street, and Sesame Street Get into the Pockets of Publicly Funded Universities or Vice Versa”
Peter Cole and Patricia O’Riley

“U21 Global: The In/Corporation of Higher Education”
Judith Walker

“How (and Why) Digital Diploma Mills (Don’t) Work: Academic Freedom, Intellectual Property Rights, Automation and UBC’s Masters of Educational Technology Program”
Stephen Petrina

Seeking Realness in a Virtual World: Dis/Illusion and Community in Online Higher Education
Kaela Jubas

“Changing Tastes: Coca-Cola, Water and the Commercialization of Higher Education”
Sean Cook and Stephen Petrina

“Commercializing Academic Freedom: R&D, Technology Transfer, Patents and Copyrights”
Stephen Petrina and Lorraine Weir

We also offer a selection of book reviews by Daniel Schierenbeck, Gregory W. Streich and William Vaughn, and our regular “Breaking News” segments (edited by Katherine Wills), as well as a number of links to labor-oriented publications on the web.

Also don’t forget to check out the Workplace Blog, for links to a wide variety of news and views on academic labor. You can now subscribe and receive email updates when the Workplace Blog has new content.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for your continuing support of our efforts here at Workplace.

In Solidarity,

Chris Carter
University of Oklahoma
Co-Editor, Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor

E. Wayne Ross
University of British Columbia
Co-Editor, Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor