GSOC-UAW members question whether an organizing strategy that relies on the NLRB and U.S. electoral politics best serves graduate employees. Part 3of 4.
In the struggle to keep up with tuition, 78% of students work while enrolled, averaging 30 hours per week. But the annual cost of everyone's public tuition in the United States is less than $50 billion, says Adolph Reed. We could pay that bill for everyone, he says--and reap substantial returns on the investment.
"Between a provocateur and a buffoon." That's how Berube describes Horowitz in this interview with Marc Bousquet. Berube explains what happens when Pennsylvania experimented with Horowitz's "academic bill of rights"
Sabbaticals for nurses and accountants? "We're all workers," says Adolph Reed. "We all want the same things." Now that everyone works in the service economy, the blue-collar/white-co llar distinctions make very little sense. And recognizing that all intellectuals are workers is a step toward realizing that all workers are intellectuals.
"I'm 30 years old and I've never made 30 thousand a year." Monica Jacobe, who is about to finish her dissertation in American literature, describes her life as a contingent faculty member. In Part 2, she talks about her prospects for an academic job and the sorry state in which previous generations of faculty and administrations have left the profession.
Melanie Hubbard, a Columbia Ph.D. with articles, an NEH fellowship, and a book contract has never been interviewed for a tenure-track job. She has served on contingent appointments at bartenders' wages for 10 years. Part 1
Getting a Ph.D. is like playing the lottery, explains Monica Jacobe. After a median 10 years of study, and perhaps four or five years of job hunting, 40 percent of language PhDs will not have tenure track jobs anywhere.
Activists from Graduate Students United at the Universiy of Chicago describe pushback from faculty members, fellow graduate students, and the administration.
Melanie Hubbard, a Columbia Ph.D. with articles, an NEH fellowship, and a book contract has never been interviewed for a tenure-track job. She has served on contingent appointments at bartenders' wages for 10 years. Part 2
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