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Who exactly encourages people to enroll in doctoral programs?
Yipee! Marc Bousquet is back, drawn out by the same silly op-ed I wrote about earlier this week. If you’ve read How the University Works (the blog or the book), you can guess his angle: [T]her… more →
More or Less Bunk
Part-time teaching hurts full time
playhotpotato wrote 1 week ago: by Ian Lopez The Coalition on Contingent Academic Labor demonstrate their dissatisfaction in Chicago … more →
Who exactly encourages people to enroll in doctoral programs?
Jonathan Rees wrote 2 months ago: Yipee! Marc Bousquet is back, drawn out by the same silly op-ed I wrote about earlier this week. I … more →
So the solution is to make everybody's job unstable?
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Jonathan Rees wrote 2 months ago: I was saving this long review essay from the New York Review of Books to write about today when I go … more →
Permanent sociologists
John wrote 3 months ago: Between 2001 and 2007, the ASA reports that the percentage of permanent faculty members has remained … more →
What's with all the "Grad students are doomed" stories these days?
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Jonathan Rees wrote 4 months ago: Is it because it’s job acceptance season? Maybe, but if most grad students are all doomed to … more →
Adjuncts and tenure-track faculty have more in common than you might think.
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Jonathan Rees wrote 4 months ago: Among the magical appearing/disappearing links showing up on my WordPress dashboard this morning was … more →
The Commodification and Deprofessionalization of the PhD
Steve wrote 4 months ago: “You see us in your departments. We look like you. We speak like you. We even teach many of the same … more →
In which Stanley Fish teaches all us academics a lesson.
Jonathan Rees wrote 5 months ago: I didn’t spend much time discussing Stanley Fish’s now second-to-last blog post about th … more →
"Stabilize the faculty now!"
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Jonathan Rees wrote 5 months ago: Marc Bousquet’s whole post (I read it at Brainstorm first) is well worth the read, but I think … more →
The University of Phoenix without the online component?
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Jonathan Rees wrote 5 months ago: The Boston Globe on the University of Southern New Hampshire’s Salem campus: So what does $10, … more →
Why does the New York Times think adjunct work at a community college is a "safe" job?
Jonathan Rees wrote 5 months ago: Imagine my surprise when I read in a story entitled “Bad Times Spur a Flight to Jobs Viewed as … more →
It's Over...
curiouschild wrote 7 months ago: My first full semester as an Adjunct History Instructor has come crashing to an end. I gave my fina … more →
Stating the incredibly obvious.
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Jonathan Rees wrote 8 months ago: The new issue of Academe is devoted entirely to non-tenure track faculty. Here’s the key para … more →
Shrinking Endowments ≠ Job or Affirmative Action
phdmamas wrote 8 months ago: The MLA job search may be shrinking before our eyes as colleges and universities are beginning to re … more →
Cutting corners.
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Jonathan Rees wrote 8 months ago: I’ve seen two stories today about academia that make my head hurt. Each one has to do with th … more →
In the News: Teaching Without Tenure at UW
uwmasa wrote 1 year ago: April 6, 2008 Teaching Without Tenure at UW By Heather LaRois, Wisconsin State Journal When UW-Madis … more →
How the University Works
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Todd wrote 1 year ago: How the University Works is an amazing blog by Marc Bousquet, an English professor at Santa Clara Un … more →
How the University Works
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Todd wrote 1 year ago: How the University Works is an amazing blog by Marc Bousquet, an English professor at Santa Clara Un … more →
Creationist upwelling in Iowa creates muddy water
Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: The Des Moines Register followed up on the story of the community college professor who said he was … more →
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