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Play Ph.D. Casino! 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.

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Predatory Employment in Higher Ed 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.

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Twilight of Academic Freedom 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.

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Higher Ed, A Pyramid Scheme 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.

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Faculty on Food Stamps 1 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.

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Faculty on Food Stamps 2 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.

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Higher Ed: Free For All 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.

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Michael Berube on David Horowitz 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"

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Ten Million Served! 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.

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30 Seconds From Humiliation 30 Seconds From Humiliation
Posted by: MarcBousquet

Video duration: 324 seconds

"Anonymous" chronicles the daily humiliations of faculty serving contingently.

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\"I Did Everything Right\" 1 "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

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We\ 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.

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Politics, Organizing and the NLRB Politics, Organizing and the NLRB
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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.

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\"I Did Everythinig Right\" 2 "I Did Everythinig Right" 2
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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

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Michael Berube on the MLA 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?

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Pushback 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.

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Ballad of the Dissertators 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."

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A Union Cannot Stand Alone A Union Cannot Stand Alone
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Video duration: 461 seconds

GSOC-UAW members describe the necessity of building coalitions across campus.

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Unions and Academic Democracy Unions and Academic Democracy
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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.

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Shame on You, NYU! Shame on You, NYU!
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Video duration: 407 seconds

Administrators retaliate against graduate employees, with high costs for faculty and undergraduates as well. Part 4 of 4

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The Committee of Two The Committee of Two
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Video duration: 248 seconds

California Faculty Association activist Elizabeth Hoffman explains how all faculty can respond to "corporatization" of the university.

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Berube bonus track: On blogging Berube bonus track: On blogging
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Video duration: 97 seconds

Video weblogs cause the demise of Western culture (at last!)

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The New Majority Faculty The New Majority Faculty
Posted by: MarcBousquet

Video duration: 323 seconds

California Faculty Association activist Elizabeth Hoffman describes the "permanently temporary" condition that is now the norm for faculty in U.S. higher education.

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Trailer for howtheuniversityworks.com Trailer for howtheuniversityworks.com
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Video duration: 28 seconds

Trailer for howtheuniversitywork s.com, Marc Bousquet's weblog.

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