Courier: Part-Time Instructors Will Be Affected Most by Class Cuts
The reduction of this year’s summer intersession due to budget cuts is not only affecting students, but faculty as well. Many PCC part-time professors will see their hours decrease dramatically, with some even being out of jobs completely.
“Some part-time faculty will be losing their jobs,” said Roger Marheine, president of the Faculty Association. “Others will have the amount of classes they teach cut in half.”
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Inside Higher Ed: Bob Kerrey Will Leave New School Presidency — in 2011
Bob Kerrey announced Thursday that he will leave the presidency of the New School in June 2011, when his contract expires. He said in a statement that his intent has long been to leave at that time, but he also acknowledged the controversies at the New School, whose student and faculty groups have become increasingly critical of his management. “To understate the case this has been a challenging semester for the university and my family,” he said. “There have been moments when I reached the limit of my willingness to continue serving as your president. There have been moments when my tendency to fight and to directly engage in confrontation, argument and disputes have been counterproductive.” A Web site maintained by students who have clashed with Kerrey offered its own analysis of Kerrey’s plans and record, ending its commentary by saying “onward in struggle.”
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Inside Higher Ed: College of DuPage Rescinds ‘Academic Bill of Rights’
The board of the College of DuPage on Monday night rescinded a version of the “Academic Bill of Rights” — David Horowitz’s statement about faculty responsibilities that is widely derided by faculty groups as a distortion of academic freedom principles — that the board adopted just last month. Monday’s meeting, however, was with a reconstituted board that followed board elections in which voters turned out key supporters of the measure encouraged by Horowitz. Faculty leaders at DuPage and elsewhere condemned last month’s vote as an attack on academic freedom. In the hours prior to the board’s vote Monday, statements were issued by several groups urging the board to reverse the April decision.
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Tallahassee Democrat: FSU graduate assistants OK union
588 out of 3,000 cast ballots; 448 vote for representation
Graduate assistants at Florida State University have voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining United Faculty of Florida, the statewide union representing higher education faculty and staff.
Only 588 of the approximately 3,000 eligible graduate students employed by FSU cast ballots during the two-day election, with 448 (76.2 percent) voting to have UFF represent them in collective bargaining. The election ended Friday afternoon.
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howtheuniversityworks.com: May Day Meditation
If you think I’ve been hard on Mark C. Taylor and the New York Times for their “hey! I went to graduate school, therefore” theories of higher education, you should consider that bad journalism and bad leadership have real consequences for people I care about, like Jamie Owen Daniel and the young fellow pictured above.In point of fact: I was rather tame by comparison to pretty much everyone else who actually knows anything about academic labor, especially the always-blistering Historiann and Jonathan Rees. Even the guy over at Savage Minds who wants to agree with Taylor admits, “this op-ed sucks.”
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BBC: No charges after anti-terror raid
Police release 12 terror suspects
All 12 men arrested over a suspected bomb plot in the UK have now been released without charge by police.
Eleven – all Pakistani nationals – have been transferred to UK Border Agency custody and face possible deportation.
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New School Free Press: New School in Exile update
On March 29, members of The New School in Exile and Radical Student Union met at the 6th Street Community Center. During the two and a half hour meeting, they finalized plans for shutting down the university on April 1 if New School President Bob Kerrey and Executive Vice President Jim Murtha do not resign. The groups’ April 1 plans will include, but are not limited to, various public events including roving rallies starting in front of 66 W. 12 St. at 2 p.m. and moving around to all the Village campuses. However, it’s not clear if the school will be shut down. A subset of the meeting discussed another occupation that they are planning.
AP: Plane Stolen From Canadian College Leads U.S. Fighter Jets on Chase
Man nabbed after plane taken from Canada to Mo.
WAUSAU, Wis. – A single-engine airplane flown away from an airport in Canada by a student pilot Monday was intercepted by jet fighters over Wisconsin but kept flying south through two more states. It finally landed on a road in southeastern Missouri and the pilot was apprehended.
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USA Today: Under a third of men at black colleges earn degree in 6 years
The proportion of women at historically black colleges has continued gradually rising, from 53% in 1976 to about 61% the last few years.
MEMPHIS — They’re no longer the only option for African-American students, but the country’s historically black colleges and universities brag that they provide a supportive environment where these students are more likely to succeed.
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The Chronicle: Grad-School Blues
Students fighting depression and anxiety are not alone
By PIPER FOGG
The Academic Life
Graduate school is gaining a reputation as an incubator for anxiety and depression.
Social isolation, financial burdens, lack of structure, and the pressure to produce groundbreaking work can wear heavily on graduate students, especially those already vulnerable to mental-health disorders.
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Zimbabwe Independent: Pay us in Hard Currency or we Strike, Workers Warn
AS the Zimbabwe dollar continues to lose value due to hyperinflation and the near dollarisation of the economy, labour unions are pushing for employees to be paid in hard currency.
Paying workers in hard currency, unions and labour analysts say, will cushion them from spiralling prices of goods and services because foreign currency is not susceptible to high inflation like the local dollar.
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Jordan Times: University students demand severing of Jordanian-Israeli ties
AMMAN – Thousands of university students marched to the Parliament building on Sunday, calling for the government to end diplomatic relations with Israel as violence in the Gaza Stip escalated with the ground invasion of Israeli forces.
From the southern town of Muta to Irbid, Amman and Salt, university students converged on Parliament to participate in the first demonstration since the onset of the Israeli ground offensive.
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Omaha World Herald: Auditor points to college official’s pay deal
LINCOLN — The state college chancellor wants to review compensation for college presidents after learning that Peru State College’s former president is receiving a $455,000-plus deferred bonus from the college’s foundation.
Chancellor Stan Carpenter said he learned about the extra pay for former Peru State College President Ben Johnson during a chance conversation with foundation staff member more than five years after the package was approved.
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Alternet: Israel bombs Islamic university in Gaza – Hamas
Source: Reuters
GAZA, Dec 28 (Reuters) – Israeli warplanes bombed the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, a significant Hamas cultural symbol, in the latest of a series of aerial attacks in the coastal territory, the Islamist group said.
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Globe and Mail: Teachers union holds out for less money
Here’s an intelligence test drawn from real life.
Your employer offers you a reasonably generous pay raise every year for four years, but asks that you accept the terms by a certain date. If you don’t accept it, the offer will be withdrawn and a discounted offer put on the table.
The question is, do you accept the original generous offer or say, “No thanks, I’ll settle for something less”?
That, in a nutshell, is the predicament facing Ontario’s 73,000 public elementary school teachers this weekend as the four-year labour peace in the province’s education sector threatens to unravel.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch: Fire Va. Tech’s president, some shooting victims’ families say
Virginia Tech’s leaders need to be held accountable for their actions during last year’s massacre, survivors and families told Gov. Timothy M. Kaine yesterday.
Some said that probably means Tech President Charles W. Steger should be fired.
In two days of meetings with the governor during the weekend, families said the pay increases and praise Tech officials received after the April 16, 2007, shootings in which 32 students and faculty members were killed has sent the wrong signal to Tech leaders and is stalling needed change. The gunman, student Seung-Hui Cho, killed himself.
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The Malaysian Star: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/11/23/nation/2625336&sec=nation
PASIR GUDANG: Local universities should take the opportunity to hire Malaysian academics retrenched by foreign universities.
Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin said many Malaysian academics currently serving in foreign universities were expecting to be retrenched due to the recession in several developed countries.
He said local universities could benefit from this by employing these academics.
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The editors of *Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor* are proud to announce our latest issue, which is now available online at http://www.cust.educ.ubc.ca/workplace/. The issue begins with a special “Mental Labor” section, which was generously compiled and guest edited by Steven Wexler. We express our heartiest gratitude to him, as well as to web designers Stephen Petrina and Franc Feng.
The lead section includes:
(I’m)Material Labor in the Digital Age
by Steven Wexler
Autonomy vs. Insecurity: The (Mis)Fortunes of Mental Labor in a Global Network
by David B. Downing
Extreme Work-Study, or, The Real “Kid Nation”
by Marc Bousquet
From the *Grundrisse* to *Capital* and Beyond: Then and Now
by George Caffentzis
Ideology and the Crisis of Capitalism
by Thomas A. Hirschl, Daniel B. Ahlquist and Leland L. Glenna
Gender, Contingent Labor, and Our Virtual Bodies
by Desi Bradley
Our regular segment of “Feature Articles” contains the following:
Capitalism, Audit, and the Demise of the Humanistic Academy
by Charles Thorpe
Troubling Data: A Foucauldian Perspective of “a Multiple Data Source Approach” to Professional Learning and Evaluation
by Mark C. Baildon
And our “Book Reviews” section, edited for the final time by William Vaughn, features four new entries:
*Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Towards a New Humanism*
Reviewed by Dana Carluccio
*Taking Back the Workers’ Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights*
Reviewed by William Vaughn
*Three Strikes: Labor’s Heartland Losses and What They Mean for Working Americans*
Reviewed by Philip Eubanks
*Teachers as Owners: A Key to Revitalizing Public Education*
Reviewed by William Vaughn
The editors are extremely thankful to William Vaughn for years of fine work with the Book Reviews, and we are sorry to see him go. We are pleased to report, however, that Steven Wexler will take on the role of reviews editor in the coming issues.
Thank you for your continuing support of the journal, and please keep *Workplace* in mind as a venue for your future scholarship. Send submissions to cscarter@ou.edu or wayne.ross@ubc.ca.
Solidarity,
Chris Carter
Wayne Ross
Stephen Petrina
Co-editors, *Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor*
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The Windsor Star: U of W tries to make up for lost time
Profs, librarians ratify new deal
Classes resume this morning at the University of Windsor after professors and librarians voted 91 per cent in favour of a new contract Saturday that will provide what amounts to a 16 per cent increase over three years, bringing to an end a contentious 17-day strike.
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The Tenth Anniversary Issue of Cultural Logic is now online.
Contributions include:
Articles:
Roland Boer
“Socialism, Christianity, and Rosa Luxemborg”
Philip Bounds
“George Orwell and the Dialogue with English Marxism”
Paula Cerni
“The Age of Consumer Capitalism”
Stephen C. Ferguson II
“Social Contract as Bourgeois Ideology”
Grover Furr and Vladimir Bobrov
“Nicolai Bukharin’s First Statement of Confession in the Lubianka”
Catherine Gouge
“‘Amibivalent Technologies’ of American Citizenship”
Bruno Gulli
“Early Plenitude: An Essay on Sovereignty and Labor”
Katerina Kolozova
“The Project of Non-Marxism:
Arguing for ‘Monstrously’ Radical Concepts”
John Maerhofer
“Aimé Césaire and the Crisis of Aesthetic and Political Vangardism ”
Michael Mikulak
“Cross-pollinating Marxism and Deep Ecology:
Towards a Post-humanist Eco-humanism”
Terence Patrick Murphy
“From Alignment to Commitment:
The Early Work of James Kelman”
Ronald Paul
“”To turn the whole world upside-down’:
Women and Revolution in The Non-Stop Connolly Show ”
Philip Tonner
“Freud, Bentham: Panopticism and the Super-Ego”
Hristos Verikukis
“Popper’s Double Standard of Scientificity in Criticizing Marxism ”
Reviews
Ivan Cañadas
Christos Tsiolkas, Dead Europe
David Hursh
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine
and
Peter McLaren and Nathalia Jaramillo, Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire
Howard Pflanzer
Robert Roth, Health Proxy
Louis Proyect
Amazing Grace
Charlie Samuya Veric, Tamara Powell, and John Streamas
E. San Juan, Jr., Balikbayang Mahal
Poetry
Christopher Barnes
Poems
Dave Bruzina
“Boom” and “The Committee Dissolves”
Iftekhar Sayeed
Poems
George Snedeker
“The History Lesson” and Other Poems
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