Pushing Back on Contingency in #HigherEd: Josh Boldt Twinterview
February 13, 2013 | Filed in: Profession
by Pete Rorabaugh
On Tuesday, February 5, 2013, Josh Boldt joined me on Twitter for an hour-long discussion of his work. Boldt, a lecturer in English at the University of Georgia and founder of the Adjunct Project, has made quite a name for himself in the last year. From attending the New Faculty Majority Summit in January 2012 to being an invited speaker at MLA's Presidential Forum "Avenues of Access: Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members and American Higher Education" in Boston last month, Boldt spent 2012 at the nexus of a central problem in higher education -- reliance on and conditions for adjunct faculty.
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On Tuesday, February 5, 2013, Josh Boldt joined me on Twitter for an hour-long discussion of his work. Boldt, a lecturer in English at the University of Georgia and founder of the Adjunct Project, has made quite a name for himself in the last year. From attending the New Faculty Majority Summit in January 2012 to being an invited speaker at MLA's Presidential Forum "Avenues of Access: Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members and American Higher Education" in Boston last month, Boldt spent 2012 at the nexus of a central problem in higher education -- reliance on and conditions for adjunct faculty.
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The Myth of Efficiency: a #digped Discussion
August 28, 2012 | Filed in: #digped
by Sean Michael Morris, Pete Rorabaugh, and Jesse Stommel
This Friday, August 31 from 1:00 - 2:00pm Eastern (10:00 - 11:00am Pacific), Hybrid Pedagogy will host a Twitter discussion under hashtag #digped to explore the changing political economies of higher education. The practicality and future of the university has fallen under scrutiny. “There is talk about the poor educational outcomes apparent in our graduates, the out-of-control tuitions and crippling student loan debt,” Leslie Leigh Scott writes in “How the American University was Killed in Five Easy Steps”. Few who have pursued life in higher education can deny an affection for the college campus. From the quad to the cafeteria, from the library to the biology lab, universities are sites of charm, intellectual industry, and perpetual nostalgia. However, “Attention is finally being paid to the enormous salaries for presidents and sports coaches, and the migrant worker status of the low-wage majority faculty.” The nostalgia is wearing off, and many are proclaiming the end of higher education as we’ve known it.
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This Friday, August 31 from 1:00 - 2:00pm Eastern (10:00 - 11:00am Pacific), Hybrid Pedagogy will host a Twitter discussion under hashtag #digped to explore the changing political economies of higher education. The practicality and future of the university has fallen under scrutiny. “There is talk about the poor educational outcomes apparent in our graduates, the out-of-control tuitions and crippling student loan debt,” Leslie Leigh Scott writes in “How the American University was Killed in Five Easy Steps”. Few who have pursued life in higher education can deny an affection for the college campus. From the quad to the cafeteria, from the library to the biology lab, universities are sites of charm, intellectual industry, and perpetual nostalgia. However, “Attention is finally being paid to the enormous salaries for presidents and sports coaches, and the migrant worker status of the low-wage majority faculty.” The nostalgia is wearing off, and many are proclaiming the end of higher education as we’ve known it.
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