COCAL Updates

1. Presidential Forum at MLA

2. New S CA adjunct resources page

3. Oregon grad student may get to trial on case alleging that university and faculty advisor(s) discriminated against her because she complained about treatment of female grad students and she was thereby prevented from finishing her dissertation and PhD.

4. Study shows “deregulation” (partial defunding and privatization effectively) of public universities does not work.

5. Adjunct hunger games

6. Special radio show in Vancouver, Canada community radio station, on education in many aspects, including interview with Karen Lewis of CTU in Chicago, Joe Berry in CA and others. 10/20/12, Sat. Listen on line. See below for details.

7. Contingent faculty in SEIU blog alerts us to article in new issue of NEA 2012 Thought and Action on contingent faculty by our colleague Claire Goldstene

8. Petition to Obama about Social Security and changing the “Windfall Elimination Provision” that will cut many our our SS benefits.

9. More on Walmart Strikers

10. IHE on CA prop 30 and possible tuition hikes if it fails

11. For-Profits and MOOCs

12. Legendary union reformer in UAW and other venues, Jerry Tucker, died this AM.

13. On the destruction of public higher ed in CA

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