The Big Lie
Let's Get Rid of the 'Big Lie' - A presentation by John Govsky at CPFA's Annual Conference 2021
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Freeway Fliers, A Documentary Film
In December of 2014, we blogged about an upcoming documentary in the works: Freeway Fliers: A Documentary about Higher Education’s Best Kept Secret Now you can watch the full documentary film The film, by […]
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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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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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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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Discipline and Punish Revisited: Teaching Evaluation
by Dennis Selder A wonderful example of Foucault’s observations about how power and knowledge interact is teaching evaluation. Teaching evaluation is a special sort of knowledge that requires a difference in the power relationship among […]
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Contingent Faculty at Hogwarts
by Dennis Selder While it’s true that Hogwarts is a relatively privileged educational institution in relation to many schools and colleges, Hogwarts too finds it necessary to rely in part on contingent faculty to fill […]
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What?
by Dennis Selder On February 6th, the PBS Newshour, ran a show “Is academia suffering from ‘adjunctivitis’? Low-paid adjunct professors struggle to make ends meet.” In it are the familiar cast of characters—the full-timer who […]