Precariat of the World Unite?
17 October 2014 — Guy Standing The term “Precariat” has been bandied around for some time now as a convenient catchall for a growing sense of employment insecurity in the U.S. and Europe. It has […]
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Solidarity Monument | Diagram for a Proposal
by Robby Herbst ©RobbyHerbst Robby Herbst is an artist, writer, and radically oriented cultural organizer. Follow him on Facebook or Twitter.
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CCSF Critic’s Biased, Deeply Flawed Argument
by Richard B. Simon As a faculty member at City College of San Francisco — and an expatriate New Yorker who holds the Times to be the epitome of journalism and integrity — I was […]
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How Privateers Undermine Our Education System Flow Chart
This chart shows the insidious web of assault on our public education system. While the chart reveals the system behind privatizing our primary and secondary schools, many of the same groups are actively involved in […]
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Why Can’t We All Work Together?
by William Lipkin | 5 July 2014 I became active in the labor movement over 25 years ago at a time when very few people even knew what the word ‘adjunct’ referred to. I immediately […]
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Salgamos de las tinieblas en Texas
Here, Ana M. Fores Tamayo provides a Spanish version of her article, “Out of the Shadows in Texas.” 18 junio de 2014 Nota de los editores: Ana M. Fores Tamayo es una profesora ambulatoria en […]
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Adjunct, Be Not Loud
With special thanks to John Donne, [“Death Be Not Proud”] For the California Part-time Faculty Association. Adjunct, be not loud, though exploited be Willing and happy, for thou have no place; With those who make […]
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Out of the Shadows in Texas
2 June 2014 Editors Note: Ana M. Fores Tamayo teaches part time in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area of Texas, a state that dwarfs California in size and has quite different education codes. Given both states’ […]
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Higher Ed Oligarchy
When John Venn formalized the use of Euler diagrams “as a means of representing relations of inclusion and exclusion between classes, or sets,” he may never have imagined the many uses to which it would […]
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Keith Hoeller has edited an important new book about contingency! Take Note!
Now out in Paperback: Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System Alex Kudera says, in reviewing the book, “There’s something weird and creepy about a democracy that insists upon universal ‘access’ to higher education and […]
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A congressman from just north of the Bay area calls for contingent faculty to speak up
Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), senior Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, today announced an eForum to investigate how an increased reliance on contingent faculty by colleges and universities nationwide has impacted the […]
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LIVE-BLOG CCSF Forum – Nov 7, 2013
Rich Hansen (FHDA) , Ron Galatolo (SMCCD), Jackie Spears, Anna Eshoo, jim Beal (all legislators) , Rafael Mandelman (CCSF trustee from the dissolved board of trustees), Josh Pechtault (CFT), Ron Gerhard (CCSF admin), Assemblyman Tom […]
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Across-the-Board Raises
Sound great, right? What could be fairer, you say, than the “same” raise for everyone? When your union announces an across the board raise, even a substantial one, like 4 or 5%, hold on to […]
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The Shootings at Santa Monica in June (2013)
The Shootings at Santa Monica (June 7, 2013) By Martin M. Goldstein It could have been worse – much, much worse. A man clearly out of his mind, who had already killed four people, […]