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    <title>The Ugly Administration of Higher Education | ACADEME BLOG</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-15T12:43:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://academeblog.org/2016/09/09/the-ugly-administration-of-higher-education/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jokes aside—adjuncts, graduate assistants, and all contingent and marginalized campus workers work hard, too. Those who believe they are exempt from or unaffected by the low-road administration of higher ed ought to question their educational agency, ethos, and value to the students, not to the system. Get this right: students are not customers and this is their educational opportunity and experience. Education is a public good not a value proposition or a gravy train. While some colleges and ethical administrators get this, many more opt not to.

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    <title>College Students, the New Cash Cows - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-18T14:15:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As I emphasize out in a new book entitled “Saving State U,” the percentage of students taught by full-time, tenure-track faculty members per student at state universities has steadily declined in recent years. And it is likely to decline even further."
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    <title>Confessions of a Community College Dean: The Times Whiffs Again</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Several alert readers sent me links to this article from the New York Times. It's a weirdly chipper "pick up some money in your spare time by adjuncting!" piece, written for (and apparently by) people who aren't terribly conversant in higher ed.

Depending on your angle to the universe, it could be read as refreshing, bizarre, or deeply offensive. (I fall into the 'bizarre' camp, with sympathies for the 'deeply offensive.')"
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    <title>Confessions of a Community College Dean: Poster Children</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-27T12:45:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The particular dilemma, at this point, boils down to which part of 'unsustainable contract' trumps the other. UF is claiming, correctly, that the current fiscal shortfall demands some level of sacrifice. Babb and the union are claiming, correctly, that a contract is a contract.

Both sides are right, but if they've retreated to such intractable positions they've both already lost. If the University 'wins,' I'd expect 'stars' to start decamping for greener pastures as soon as the market improves, since they'd be afraid that promises are written in sand. If Babb 'wins,' the University will have to take out its cuts instead on those least able to fight back – it's not like the fiscal crisis will just go away -- and the anti-public-education conservatives will have their latest Ward Churchill to use as a battering ram. Either result is ugly."
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    <title>The Valve - A Literary Organ | Mama, Don’t Let Your Kids Grow Up to Be Grad Students</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-31T23:06:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I suppose part of the reason why I never considered a career in academia is that I am the child of an adjunct. My father was teaching at three different institutions when I was small, and later, as he gained more seniority, he was able to teach at just one. He teaches at a community college, and he was *finally* made a full-timer this year, at the age of 63, thanks to the union. The only reason we had (barely) enough money or health insurance growing up is that my mother taught in the local public schools. And funny enough, my mother is the one who went to a state school and my dad is the one who went to the Ivy. Dad’s employer, and lots of others are making more and more use of adjuncts and driving wages down to a despicable level. I don’t know why more people aren’t outraged. "
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    <title>Critical Mass - Brilliant idea?</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Organize the adjunct professoriate not as a union, but as a highly-paid consultancy. Some merit.
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