Union activist Joe Berry introduces Cary Nelson during Campus Equity WeekCCIndependent filmmaker Barbara Wolf hands out fliers with part-time faculty in Chicago



Tenure Denied: Union Busting
in the Corporate University

by Joel Westheimer


Update: Federal Government Charges
NYU with Illegal Firing of Professor
NYU's official publicity photo of Joel Westheimer

Campus Equity Week: Mobilizing Contingent Labor 
section editor Chris Carter

Introduction: Formal Opposition in the Casual Academy by Chris Carter

"Defending a 'De-Scheduled' Instructor: A Program Representative (Steward) Workshop for the Roosevelt Adjunct Faculty Organization" by Helena Worthen


"Campus Equity Week: Contingent Faculty Make News" by Joe Berry

"Collective Contingency" by Nick Tingle

"An Interview with Barbara Wolf, Director of Degrees of Shame and A Simple Matter of Justice: Contingent  Faculty Organize" by Chris Carter

For a sneak preview of A Simple Matter of Justice:: Contingent Faculty Organize, click here. To purchase Barbara Wolf's Degrees of Shame and/or A Simple Matter of Justice, contacting her via email at br_wolf@hotmail.com.

TBA
a poem by Sharon Warner

A Tale of Two City Universities: Internal and New Unit Adjunct Organizing in New York City by Eric Marshall


Education for Democracy: Fighting the
Corporate Takeover
section editors David Brodsky, Patricia Brodsky, and Ali Zaidi

"Introduction: Democracy against Corporatism in Education" by David Brodsky 

1. SECTION 1: "EDUCATION AND SOCIETY: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES" 

1.1. "Potential Consequences of International Trade Agreements for Higher Education" by Franklin W. Neff

1.2. "The Political Economy of American Science" by Alex Dajkovic 

1.3. "Education not Incarceration" by Michael McCormack 

1.4. "Some Comments on Militarism and Miseducation" by Emiliano Huet-Vaughn 


2. SECTION 2: "DEGRADING THE WORKFORCE" 

2.1. PART 1: "FULL-TIME FACULTY" 

2.1.1. "Higher Education and the Corporate Paradigm: the Students are the Losers" by Zuleyma Tang-Martinez 

2.1.2. "Shrunken Heads: The Humanities under the Corporate Model" by Patricia P. Brodsky 

2.1.3. "The Morale of Faculty, Students, and Staff under a Corporate Model: The Case of the University of Kansas" by Raymond Pierotti 

2.1.4. "Reallocation" at the University of Kansas School of Medicine: a Pathological Case History" by Fred Whitehead 

2.2. PART 2: "PART-TIME FACULTY" 
 

2.2.1. "Building a Foundation for Academic Excellence: Towards a Blueprint for the Professional Treatment of Disempowered Faculty" by Stephen Dilks 

2.2.2. "Homogenizing the Curriculum: Manufacturing the Standardized Student," by Beth Huber 

2.2.3. "Titles, Terms, and Meaning: The Exploitation of Part-Time Faculty and What One Group is Doing About It" by Mindy Fiala and Katie Kline


3. SECTION 3: "DEVELOPING DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE AND VISION" 

3.1. "The Struggle for Faculty Governance: its Ethical, Social, and Pedagogical Significance" by Stuart A. McAninch 

3.2. "Democratic vs. Corporate Governance" by David Brodsky 


Large audience listens to Andrew Ross speak on an academic-activism panel at the American Studies Association


SECTION 4: "LABOR ACTIVISM ON AND OFF CAMPUS AND LABOR-ACADEMIC-COMMUNITY ALLIANCES" 

4.1. "Places of Change: Colleges, Communities, and the Logic of Struggle" by Corey Dolgon 

4.2. "Learning and Labor" by William Vaughn 

4.3. "The Saga of the Neptune Jade: Free Speech at Laney College" by Ellen Starbird 


Book Reviews

Evan Watkins' Work Time
by Floyd Olive

Jeff Schmidt's Disciplined Minds
by Brian Martin


AAUP
American Association of University Professors
Academic Freedom for a Free Society


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