The Chronicle Review: Quality Management in South Carolina 1
by Marc Bousquet
cross-posted from howtheuniversityworks.com
When I showed up at my first tenure-track job in a right-to-work, kind of Southern state, adjunct writing faculty were being asked to pay tuition for a summer pedagogy seminar run by the writing director in an illegal “pay-to-work” scheme.
(Unless the prospective adjuncts were spouses of tenure-track faculty, in which case they still had to take the course, but were graciously comped the graft.)
This was 1998, at the University of Louisville. Six-year graduation rates under aggressive “quality management” were around 30 percent (where they remain). And the latest innovation in “enabling access to higher education” was indenturing college hopefuls to UPS and discarding them without a degree, in a scam I’ve previously discussed as Extreme Work-Study.
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