Equity, Governance, Economics and Critical University Studies #criticaled...
Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor Equity, Governance, Economics and Critical University Studies No 23 (2014) As we state in our Commentary, “This Issue marks a couple of milestones and crossroads...
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Academic job market decimated, crashing #highered #edstudies #criticaled...
Oftentimes, the academic job market for full-time (FT) faculty is inversely related to economic recessions. Not anymore. In this prolonged Great Recession, turned Great Depression II in parts of North...
View ArticleOveruse and Abuse of Adjunct Faculty #highered #adjunct #edstudies...
Richard Moser, Chronicle of Higher Education, January 13, 2014– The increasing exploitation of contingent faculty members is one dimension of an employment strategy sometimes called the “two-tiered” or...
View ArticleStep 1 is acknowledge the problem: Plight of adjunct faculty #highered...
Audrey Williams June, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 7, 2014– Maria C. Maisto, president of New Faculty Majority, answered via email select questions submitted by viewers of The Chronicle’s...
View ArticleThe just-in-time professor #highered #edstudies #criticaled #ubc #bced
THE JUST-IN-TIME PROFESSOR: A Staff Report Summarizing eForum Responses on the Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty in Higher Education January 2014 The post-secondary academic workforce has...
View ArticleAdministrative bloat @ 28% boom in #highered #criticaled #edstudies #ubc #bced
Scott Carlson, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 5, 2014– Thirty-four pages of research, branded with a staid title and rife with complicated graphs, might not seem like a scintillating read, but...
View ArticleReasonable hostility: Academic freedom & speech under threat #highered...
No disrespect, but… Politic for politic, as faculty and student activism over the last decade was generated in response to administrative measures taken to devalue academic budget lines and increase...
View ArticleChomsky on the destruction of #highered #criticaled #edstudies #ubc #yteubc
Noam Chomsky, AlterNet, Reader Supported News, March 1, 2014– The following is an edited transcript of remarks given by Noam Chomsky via Skype on 4 February 2014 to a gathering of members and allies of...
View ArticleCFP: Academic Mobbing (Special Issue of Workplace) #edstudies #criticaled...
LAST Call for Papers Academic Mobbing Special Issue Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor Editors: Stephen Petrina & E. Wayne Ross Editors of Workplace are accepting manuscripts for a theme issue...
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Top story of 2013-14 at #ubc? Failure of accountability for Sauder rape cheer...
Photo credit: Carmine Marinelli/Vancouver 24hours/QMI Agency The Ubyssey, April 13, 2014– Starting the year off with a bang, The Ubyssey broke the story that first-years participating in the Commerce...
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Clampdown on academic freedom and speech in Canada #bced #caut...
You do not have to tolerate caricature, criticism, critique, irony, parody. When you make $230k+ as a University President, when you have the power to run an academic institution, when you have a...
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CFP for iPopU #edstudies #occupyed #criticaled
CFP: iPopU Topdown 100 Innorenovations Special Issue of Workplace (iPopU) 2015 iPopU is cataloguing its mold-breaking outside-the-box ‘you won’t find these on the shelf of brick and mortar’...
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#iPopU innovation in evaluation #occupyed #edstudies #criticaled
iPopU Innovation in Evaluation Mayor of iPopU Edutainum Infinitum Let’s face it: Evaluation is silly. Reviews of programs and units in universities in this day and age are even sillier. Units put the...
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#Workplace preprints available #criticaled #highered
WORKPLACE: A JOURNAL FOR ACADEMIC LABOR PREPRINTS AVAILABLE Joss Winn Writing About Academic Labour Ellen Boesenberg Survival in the New Corporatized Academy: Resisting the Privatization of Higher...
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New #UBC Grad Program in Critical Pedagogy & Education Activism #bctf #bced...
NEW MASTERS PROGRAM IN THE INSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL EDUCATION STUDIES CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AND EDUCATION ACTIVISM BEGINS JULY 2014 APPLY NOW! The new UBC Masters Program in Critical Pedagogy and Education...
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CFP: Marx, Engels and the Critique of Academic Labor #highered #edstudies...
Call for Papers Marx, Engels and the Critique of Academic Labor Special Issue of Workplace Guest Editors: Karen Gregory & Joss Winn Articles in Workplace have repeatedly called for increased...
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Symposium: Public Engagement and the Politics of Evidence in an Age of...
Public Engagement and the Politics of Evidence in an Age of Neoliberalism and Audit Culture July 23-25, 2015 Faculty of Education, University of Regina This symposium will examine accelerating trends...
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CFP: Critical Theories for the 21st Century
Critical Education is proud to be the sponsor journal for Critical Theories in the 21st Century 4th annual: critical theories in the twenty first century: a conference of transformative pedagogies...
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New Workplace Issue: Reforming Academic Labor, Resisting Imposition, K12 and...
New Workplace Issue #25 Reforming Academic Labor, Resisting Imposition, K12 and Higher Education Writing About Academic Labour Joss Winn Survival in the New Corporatized Academy: Resisting the...
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New Workplace Issue: Academic Bullying & Mobbing #highered #ubc #caut
New Workplace Issue #24 Academic Bullying & Mobbing Academic Bullying and Mobbing: Introduction to the Special Issue Institute for Critical Education Studies Of Sticks and Stones, Words that Wound,...
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