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Play Ph.D. Casino! Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 213 seconds Getting a Ph.D. is like playing the lottery, explains Monica Jacobe. After a median 10 years of study, and perhaps four or five years of job hunting, 40 percent of language PhDs will not have tenure track jobs anywhere. Related: marc, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, faculty, feminism, phd, professors, students, universities, women Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Predatory Employment in Higher Ed Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 306 seconds "I'm 30 years old and I've never made 30 thousand a year." Monica Jacobe, who is about to finish her dissertation in American literature, describes her life as a contingent faculty member. In Part 2, she talks about her prospects for an academic job and the sorry state in which previous generations of faculty and administrations have left the profession. Related: marc, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, faculty, feminism, phd, professors, students, universities, women Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Faculty on Food Stamps 1 Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 317 seconds A professor on public assistance. Andy Smith describes his ten years as a contingent faculty member. The vast majority of all college faculty are now hired on a contingent basis. Related: food, public, adjuncts, assistance, bousquet, colleges, faculty, professors, stamps, students, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Higher Ed, A Pyramid Scheme Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 416 seconds Higher ed employment has become a pyramid scheme, explains Michelle Masse, with mostly-male sectors at the top and mostly-female sectors at the bottom. The relationship between "feminization" of the humanities and "masculinization" of administration means we're all in the harem of the dean. Related: marc, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, faculty, feminism, phd, professors, students, universities, women Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Twilight of Academic Freedom Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 428 seconds Cary Nelson describes how the shift to a majority contingent faculty is an intellectual sea change for undergraduates as well as faculty themselves. Related: academic, marc, aaup, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, faculty, freedom, phd, professors, students, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Faculty on Food Stamps 2 Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 452 seconds Part 2 of a professor on public assistance. Andy Smith describes his ten years as a contingent faculty member. Related: food, public, adjuncts, assistance, bousquet, colleges, economics, faculty, professors, stamps, students, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Higher Ed: Free For All Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 265 seconds In the struggle to keep up with tuition, 78% of students work while enrolled, averaging 30 hours per week. But the annual cost of everyone's public tuition in the United States is less than $50 billion, says Adolph Reed. We could pay that bill for everyone, he says--and reap substantial returns on the investment. Related: financial, marc, student, aid, bousquet, colleges, debt, loans, professors, students, tuition, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Michael Berube on David Horowitz Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 357 seconds "Between a provocateur and a buffoon." That's how Berube describes Horowitz in this interview with Marc Bousquet. Berube explains what happens when Pennsylvania experimented with Horowitz's "academic bill of rights" Related: academic, david, adjuncts, berube, bill, bousquet, colleges, faculty, horowitz, of, professors, rights, students, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Ten Million Served! Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 367 seconds "Wal-mart workers know they're being had," Michelle Masse says. "Academics don't." She argues that the call to service in higher education has been a vector for cynical exploitation by administrations, but also for willing submission to exploitative demands. This is especially the case for womenn faculty, but also for men in feminized sectors, such as the humanities. Related: marc, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, faculty, feminism, phd, professors, students, universities, women Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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30 Seconds From Humiliation Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 324 seconds "Anonymous" chronicles the daily humiliations of faculty serving contingently. Related: community, marc, wage, working, aaup, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, colleges, contingent, faculty, grad, graduate, intellectuals, phd, poor, poverty, professors, slavery, students, teachers, unions, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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"I Did Everything Right" 1 Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 320 seconds Melanie Hubbard, a Columbia Ph.D. with articles, an NEH fellowship, and a book contract has never been interviewed for a tenure-track job. She has served on contingent appointments at bartenders' wages for 10 years. Part 1 Related: marc, working, aaup, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, columbia, contingent, faculty, grad, graduate, ivy, league, phd, poor, poverty, professors, students, unions, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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We're All Workers--And We're All Intellectuals, Too Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 349 seconds Sabbaticals for nurses and accountants? "We're all workers," says Adolph Reed. "We all want the same things." Now that everyone works in the service economy, the blue-collar/white-co llar distinctions make very little sense. And recognizing that all intellectuals are workers is a step toward realizing that all workers are intellectuals. Related: marc, bousquet, colleges, intellectuals, loans, professors, students, tuition, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Politics, Organizing and the NLRB Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 509 seconds GSOC-UAW members question whether an organizing strategy that relies on the NLRB and U.S. electoral politics best serves graduate employees. Part 3of 4. Related: marc, working, aaup, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, contingent, faculty, grad, graduate, gsoc-uaw, nyu, phd, poor, poverty, professors, students, unions, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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"I Did Everythinig Right" 2 Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 490 seconds Melanie Hubbard, a Columbia Ph.D. with articles, an NEH fellowship, and a book contract has never been interviewed for a tenure-track job. She has served on contingent appointments at bartenders' wages for 10 years. Part 2 Related: marc, working, aaup, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, columbia, contingent, faculty, grad, graduate, ivy, league, phd, poor, poverty, professors, students, unions, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Michael Berube on the MLA Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 271 seconds Can the MLA and other scholarly associations do more to help an impoverished faculty? Related: higher, modern, adjuncts, association, colleges, education, faculty, language, mla, professors, scholar, students, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Pushback Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 561 seconds Activists from Graduate Students United at the Universiy of Chicago describe pushback from faculty members, fellow graduate students, and the administration. Related: marc, working, aaup, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, contingent, faculty, grad, graduate, phd, poor, poverty, professors, students, unions, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Ballad of the Dissertators Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 351 seconds Activists from Graduate Students United at the Universiy of Chicago sing Joe Grim Feinberg's "Ballad of the Marooned Dissertation Writers." Related: marc, working, aaup, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, contingent, dissertations, faculty, grad, graduate, phd, poor, poverty, professors, students, unions, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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A Union Cannot Stand Alone Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 461 seconds GSOC-UAW members describe the necessity of building coalitions across campus. Related: marc, working, aaup, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, contingent, faculty, grad, graduate, gsoc-uaw, nyu, phd, poor, poverty, professors, students, unions, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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The Committee of Two Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 248 seconds California Faculty Association activist Elizabeth Hoffman explains how all faculty can respond to "corporatization" of the university. Related: marc, working, aaup, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, contingent, faculty, grad, graduate, nontenurable, part-time, phd, poor, poverty, professors, students, tenure, tenure-track, unions, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Unions and Academic Democracy Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 546 seconds Activists from Graduate Students United at the Universiy of Chicago describe their vision for intellectual and workplace democracy in higher ed. Related: marc, working, aaup, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, contingent, faculty, grad, graduate, phd, poor, poverty, professors, students, unions, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Shame on You, NYU! Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 407 seconds Administrators retaliate against graduate employees, with high costs for faculty and undergraduates as well. Part 4 of 4 Related: marc, working, aaup, adjuncts, bousquet, colleges, contingent, faculty, grad, graduate, gsoc-uaw, nyu, phd, poor, poverty, professors, students, unions, universities Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Berube bonus track: On blogging Posted by: MarcBousquet
Video duration: 97 seconds Video weblogs cause the demise of Western culture (at last!) Related: adjuncts, berube, blog, bloggers, bousquet, colleges, faculty, professors, students, universities, video, videoblogging Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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The New Majority Faculty Posted by: MarcBousquet
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By: genefury. on 05 Dec 08, 05:54:36
i have a ba in business and i'm currently unemployed i thought when i got out of college i would be set, but after 9/11...well you know the rest
By: CalifbeachCowboy. on 27 Nov 08, 01:27:22
Nofreespeech is just another pathetic internet tough guy.
By: Rosetteismyname. on 27 Oct 08, 00:37:39
thanks to University of Phoenix in part for making education a business... there is also corporations that want to hire new grads ranging from 12 - 13 bucks an hour whether they have experience or not
By: 437thx1138. on 14 Oct 08, 06:53:39
Sad but true story nationwide. A billion a day in Iraq and here it's no child left behind. What a joke.
By: centralnyguy37. on 02 Oct 08, 17:20:18
If you didn't have your head up your ass you would know that my posting response to another dip shit like your self on this video was making that exact point. That 60K a years isn't good money. I would post the individuals comment below I was responding to so you could see how ignorant you are. But apparently the owner of this video did not like the comment I was responding to and had it removed. I went to your channel by the way and saw your pic. Your as a dumb as you look.
By: NoFreeSpeechonYT. on 01 Oct 08, 20:36:10
Who gives a fuck buddy? NY, New York city, who cares? The fact you think 60K a year is good money is laughable no matter where you live! You couldn't even buy a house on that kind of money! LOL! And anyone who defends Kent Hovind is a fucking retard. Brainwashed is believing in religion and Kent Hovind you sorry fuck.
By: centralnyguy37. on 01 Oct 08, 18:36:09
Your a prime example of why profiling needs to be stopped in this world. I'm in upstate NY dip shit. Not NY City. Try to use your head. 60k is good money up here. Just the fact that you assumed I was from NY city when there are in fact 10 million other New Yorkers in upstate is is a very good indication your brain washed and pay to much attention to the media. Educate yourself with facts. Not with liberal TV media garbage.
By: NoFreeSpeechonYT. on 01 Oct 08, 13:48:28
If you believe what Kent Hovind says then I have a bridge I'd like to sell you. He's in prison for lying and stealing from idiots just like you. And 60K a year isn't big money, especially in NY. You're a peon for that kind of money. Hell, you could make 150K a year driving a taxi! So go back to cleaning that office and quit bothering people with your creationist nonsense.
By: NoFreeSpeechonYT. on 01 Oct 08, 13:23:43
When you choose academia as your profession, you should know what you're getting into. It's a political nightmare full of inflated egos and cronyism. If you're not one of the "good old girl" network, you're nothing. Hard work doesn't necessarily mean success.
By: milkgodnl. on 07 Sep 08, 22:23:53
(1) Our Teachers Unions must press for low part-time to full-time faculty ratios as a condition for regional accreditation. .. (2) When I earned my M.S. in Computer Science, my starting salary in industry was higher that my Chair's. .. (3) Deans are the first to notice if youv'e been published in a prestigious journal -- if you had any trouble with them before, you wouldn't now. (4) I bring my own markers to class and take them when I leave, and supply absolutely **nothing** to my students.
By: Jitpring. on 01 Sep 08, 07:19:50
Are we working under the assumption that there is fairness in this world? Friends, this is a ruthless world. Such are the fruits of the fall.
By: Nullifidian. on 16 Aug 08, 00:55:35
Furthermore, John Lennox does *not* have three doctoral degrees. Lennox is a *real* academic and therefore doesn't need to rely on rattling off degrees to establish his intellectual legitimacy in the way that your creationist heroes do. Nor is John Lennox a creationist, except in the sense that any Christian believes in God as the Creator, which would also make many evolutionary biologists like Theodosius Dobzhansky 'creationists'. So what would be the point of watching the debate with Dawkins?
By: Nullifidian. on 16 Aug 08, 00:50:00
People have pointed out Hovind's lies at length and in depth. It doesn't seem to have made the slightest difference to his defenders like yourself. Furthermore, nobody but high school debate teams cares about "ad hominem attacks". Pointing out that Hovind has a Ph.D. from a diploma mill and is currently in prison for tax evasion lets us know that we're dealing with a con man. Though it has no fancy Latin name, buying the lies of con men is a far larger source of avoidable error in the world.
By: centralnyguy37. on 11 Aug 08, 02:55:04
If Kent Hovind was such a liar, Then why not point out the lies as opposed to launching ad hominem attacks ? All the liberals he debated were good for rebutting with were things such as " Oh he's in jail or has fake Phd". Also I would suggest you take a look at the debate on You Tube between John Lenox and Richard Dawkins . John Lenox holding three doctorate degrees could hardly be considered an unintelligent or uneducated man as you have eluded to creation being in your previous statement .
By: Nullifidian. on 09 Aug 08, 17:37:41
Yes, it's easy to "spank" professors if you're willing to lie freely in the middle of a debate (and afterwards about the outcome) and ignore refutations. The training of professors doesn't extend to parrying the rhetorical tricks of a con man in verbal debates.
By: centralnyguy37. on 30 Jul 08, 20:00:36
Right on xgz !! We coulnd have that now could we ? lol
By: centralnyguy37. on 30 Jul 08, 19:59:17
Degree or no degree, Kent Hovind not having what most evolutionist refer as " A valid Phd. " Did not stop Mr.. Hovind from spanking most of the liberal professors he engaged in debates with .
By: centralnyguy37. on 30 Jul 08, 19:54:49
Pharmacy, I hope your being sarcastic. I dropped out of high school and made 60 k a yr. You call that good money ? I assume your being sarcastic.
By: centralnyguy37. on 30 Jul 08, 19:51:53
Crow.. I couldnt agree with your statement more. All though I don't attribute this slave labor to Capitalism as you have put it. But rather to pure greed. Companies and institutions are lining their greedy pockets with cash at the expense of those who do the real work. I also would most deffinitely agree with your statement as to this problem not being found in academia alone . All These greedy executives are interested in doing is rewarding their share holders with dividend increases .
By: xgz773. on 30 Jul 08, 14:07:24
OK, suppose your stipend were to be increased. Where would that money come from? It might be taken from and thus decrease the million dollar salary bestowed on the football coach. Would you want to be responsible for THAT?!?
By: Nullifidian. on 22 Jul 08, 14:55:27
If engineering gives one a "foothold in objective reality", then why is it that whenever I encounter a creationist or intelligent design proponent who claims to have a "science degree", that degree is almost invariably in engineering?
By: crow24179. on 30 Mar 08, 11:28:37
Face it, folks. If you don't see how "employment" has become "exploitation," you're among those determined to repeat the echoes of a work ethic that's dead, buried, and forgotten in the real world. You're still worshipping at the feet of mere institutions and expect people to sacrifice their souls on the altar of greed, conveniently called "capitalism," of course. What this lady is talking about is true not only in academia but the rest of the "real world" of working, as well.
By: kylekip. on 15 Mar 08, 00:10:44
She is smoking hott!
By: raskolnikov1865. on 06 Mar 08, 19:16:23
The "engineer" has managed to miss the entire point of the argument. First, the humanities are an important element of a well-rounded, university education; without a humanities department, a college is little more than a technical school. Second, English degrees are useful: Ms. Jacobe has over 100 students and most of them are probably business or engineering students who still, despite their brilliance, can't figure out when to use "too" instead of "to."
By: butterzbread. on 08 Feb 08, 14:05:04
Renisance lit, how often is that used? Why not a doctorate in underwater basket weaving? Just because you enjoy your degree, doesn't mean it's worth anything. And law degrees, come on, America has to many people that like to talk and not enough that act. Get a degree that requires a real challenge, engineering, and then double major in your arts and philosphy. At least then you can have a foothold in objective reality.