The grifter accusations popped up again on social media last week. Find one post here and then scroll up and down for a bit more commentary about it. I still need to write the blog post that unpacks all of that and what it says about the … [Read more...] about Academia Is the Grift, Part II: Reader Voices
Adjunct Issues
#Dispatches: Why The F**k Don’t We Revolt??
#Dispatches From the Frontlines Monday series crowdsources questions to get a broad indication of how our readers are coping with various challenges.The question right now: Why the f**k don't we revolt??? (contributed by Kel, lol). New #Dispatches … [Read more...] about #Dispatches: Why The F**k Don’t We Revolt??
The Academy Is The Grift
Last week in my Starting a Small Business webinar Q&A, somebody asked me, what was your biggest surprise in starting a business beyond what you have shared in the webinar? I was startled by the question, and struggled to answer it for a … [Read more...] about The Academy Is The Grift
#Dispatches: COVID Impacts by Career Level, Part II ~ NTT/Adjuncts/VAP
#Dispatches From the Frontlines Monday series crowdsources questions to get a broad indication of how our readers are coping with various challenges. The question right now: How has COVID impacted your career? Due to the massive number of … [Read more...] about #Dispatches: COVID Impacts by Career Level, Part II ~ NTT/Adjuncts/VAP
Yelling at the Ivory Tower: How the CUNY Professional Staff Congress Came to Fail Its People – Guest Post
By Barbara K Emanuele. Barbara K Emanuele has served as an educator and an administrator in CUNY for twenty years. Her focus is on composition instruction to students in an urban settings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After months of negotiations, long past … [Read more...] about Yelling at the Ivory Tower: How the CUNY Professional Staff Congress Came to Fail Its People – Guest Post
From Russia with Anxiety: An Accidental Alt-Ac Story (#Postac Guest Post)
I'm pleased to host this guest post by the indomitable Chrissy Stroop. Chrissy is one of my post-ac heroes, for her courage and commitment to exposing the Evangelical cult through her #EmptyThePews and related online community building and writing. … [Read more...] about From Russia with Anxiety: An Accidental Alt-Ac Story (#Postac Guest Post)
Don’t Adjunct at Wright State University – It is Scab Labor
Real-time Alert: Wright State University faculty have been on strike for over two weeks. This week Wright State University admin has sent out a call for adjuncts to fill in the positions of the striking faculty members. They are offering on-campus … [Read more...] about Don’t Adjunct at Wright State University – It is Scab Labor
Anthropology’s Alternative Facts
After attending the AAA and AAR meetings, I wrote a blog post called A Tale of Two Conferences. In it, I bemoaned the sorry state of the AAA's engagement with issues of real-life (as opposed to academic jargon) precarity and the scandal of … [Read more...] about Anthropology’s Alternative Facts
Call it Real-Ac
At the start of every talk that I give on the academic and post-academic job market, I state that in a decades long reality in which only 5-35% of PhDs (depending on field) will get tenure track jobs, the so-called "non-academic" job should NOT be … [Read more...] about Call it Real-Ac
What Is Free? Elitism and University Careers Advising
I wrote last week about my good times at the American Academy of Religion conference. And it was indeed a very good time. But there was one incident that I can’t stop thinking about, and I want to share it here. Because, it gets at the elitism that … [Read more...] about What Is Free? Elitism and University Careers Advising