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If you needed to hear it from a white person, OK, but that’s part of the problem | Here comes trouble
https://sethkahn.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/if-you-needed-to-hear-it-from-a-white-person-ok-but-thats-part-of-the-problem
Rantings, ravings, wanderings, wonderings, (a)musings. If you needed to hear it from a white person, OK, but that’s part of the problem. I think a lot about being an activist and an ally in communities I don’t really identify with except as an activist and an ally. The lion’s share of that thinking has been about contingent labor activism, but especially over the last week or two (yes, I’m late in getting to it, and one purpose of this post is to issue a. The response isn’t. In the sense of. 4 Based on a...
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We Hurt Our Bargaining Position by Devaluing Lower-Division Teaching | Here comes trouble
https://sethkahn.wordpress.com/2015/07/08/we-hurt-our-bargaining-position-by-devaluing-lower-division-teaching
Rantings, ravings, wanderings, wonderings, (a)musings. We Hurt Our Bargaining Position by Devaluing Lower-Division Teaching. On Facebook this morning, this piece from SEIU’s Faculty Forward site. It says a lot that needs saying aloud about labor problems particularly at for-profit institutions, and I encourage you to read it if you have any interest at all in academic labor equity. Every time I encounter this line of argument I want to say two things: (1) teaching gen-ed courses requires just as much sub...
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Responding to ASU’s “response” | Here comes trouble
https://sethkahn.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/responding-to-asus-response
Rantings, ravings, wanderings, wonderings, (a)musings. Responding to ASU’s “response”. Thanks to J ohn Warner at. For linking to this statement. From Arizona State regarding the restructuring of full-time NTT instructor job responsibilities in the English Department. I agree with Warner that the statement is “weak sauce” but would go even further to point out the Orwellian nature of this aspect:. I really, really, really, really, really want somebody to explain to me how somebody’s. That as long as.
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Adjunct labor, Libertarianism, and DIY Collectivism | Here comes trouble
https://sethkahn.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/adjunct-labor-libertarianism-and-diy-collectivism
Rantings, ravings, wanderings, wonderings, (a)musings. Adjunct labor, Libertarianism, and DIY Collectivism. For particularly awesome responses). The only point I actually want to make is this: if you have any actual human emotions or empathy, enough to realize how inhumane his argument is, then you also have enough humaneness in you to understand that for all the times we privileged tenured folk have wrung our hands and announced there’s nothing we can do, here’s a very simple one. From your own site.
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A lesson in ‘tenure-splainin’ | Here comes trouble
https://sethkahn.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/a-lesson-in-tenure-splainin
Rantings, ravings, wanderings, wonderings, (a)musings. A lesson in ‘tenure-splainin’. When we say anything that smacks of “If you’ve never been in a tenure line, you can’t understand it, so let me tell you all about how hard it is.”. The reason I’m writing about it now, and on my blog instead of hers, is that it occurs to me there’s still an important lesson to be gotten from the exchange (several, really, but for today just this one! You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.
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ASU’s new response still isn’t good enough | Here comes trouble
https://sethkahn.wordpress.com/2015/01/23/asus-new-response-still-isnt-good-enough
Rantings, ravings, wanderings, wonderings, (a)musings. ASU’s new response still isn’t good enough. In today’s (Jan 23). That Arizona State has decided to give full-time instructors with PhDs a raise in minimum salary from $32K to $36K/year. That’s not bad news, on its face. The pay was awful for a full-time job requiring advanced graduate training, and now it’s marginally less awful. However, it’s not especially good news either, for several reasons. That’s a harm all by itself, and the damage is a...
