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The 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

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The U.S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education has announced that it will hold a public hearing in Seattle on Feb. 7. The commission will also have a full meeting next month in San Diego, for which it released an agenda that will focus on “innovation.”

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The Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina in partnership with the San Francisco-based Fund for Labor Culture and History will host a third gathering in a series exploring laborlore and workers culture on September 24, 2005. Billed as “Laborlore Conversations III,” the event will take place on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and will feature a pre-conference concert on Friday evening with traditional music legend Alice Gerrard.

The Saturday gathering is free and open to the public and will be of special interest to folklorists, historians, ethnomusicologists, educators, trade unionists, worker-scholars, and community scholars. Conversation themes and presentations include labor art, ballad scholarship, country music, Piedmont blues, coal miner argot, sustainable agriculture and southern textile mill towns in transition, farm labor “guest workers,” and strategies and issues around labor and community organizing in the region.

Future gatherings are in planning for Madison, WI and Washington, DC.

For more information, please contact Tim Prizer at

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