Looking forward to the course. My question is about the collapse of higher education. I was in the phd program at UPenn's English Department (had to drop out because of severe depression unrelated to that). Anyway, I spent what free time I had trying to organize grad employees (we had already suffered the fatal(?) blow of the NLRB's decision deeming grad employees at private unis not actually employees, so our election results had been impounded and never counted). Anyway, I did a study of the school of arts and sciences, and more than 70% of the courses were taught by adjuncts. Any thoughts on the "casualization of academic labor"? Also, the year most of my cohort went on the job market, there were 3 tenure-track jobs in the entire country...
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Looking forward to the course. My question is about the collapse of higher education. I was in the phd program at UPenn's English Department (had to drop out because of severe depression unrelated to that). Anyway, I spent what free time I had trying to organize grad employees (we had already suffered the fatal(?) blow of the NLRB's decision deeming grad employees at private unis not actually employees, so our election results had been impounded and never counted). Anyway, I did a study of the school of arts and sciences, and more than 70% of the courses were taught by adjuncts. Any thoughts on the "casualization of academic labor"? Also, the year most of my cohort went on the job market, there were 3 tenure-track jobs in the entire country...
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