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For some of these women, this will probably be the most lucrative work their Ph.D. will ever get them.
The University of Illinois-Chicago faculty have gone on strike in protest of the corporatization of the university that threatens what faculty do--our ability to teach and research, the stability of.
The Chronicle discusses a new report: "Labor Intensive or Labor Expensive: Changing Staffing and Compensation Patterns in Higher Education", detailing the rise of professional administrative positions in American higher education..
As I've written about, universities in the UK have offered us a 1% pay increase, which they implemented in December, backdating to August. My union went on strike twice last.
This essay on the current experience at the University of Michigan published on Inside Higher Ed, made the rounds last week. Titled "Corporate Values", it includes several quotes that speak.
The Guardian ran this a couple of days ago, written by an academic who finally grew frustrated enough to pack it in. The takeaway: Universities in the 21st century no.
In March, I posted "The Commericalization of Academia: A Case Study" to LGM. This past weekend, Rob drew my attention to this review essay by Christopher Newfield published in the Los.
We know of the Red Scare. On campus, anticommunism during World War I and after World War II led to fired faculty and silenced opposition. Today we live in the.