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Central Michigan University Faculty Fight for Quality Education

All across the country,  professors  and faculty unions are fighting to preserve the right to fair collective bargaining and quality learning conditions.  Although we are bargaining for new contracts...

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Tragedy in North Carolina: Re-segregating and Dismantling Public Education

Guest blogger Betsy Burrows, Assistant Professor of English at Brevard College, describes herself as a “concerned teacher, mother,  and citizen in North Carolina.”  Her comments below lament the...

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Blood Money: Pearson’s Profit

The Obama administration’s recent, modest change in policy toward No Child Left Behind (NCLB), indicates some response to years of activism and a statistically-based critique of the inadequacies and...

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The Assault on Public Employee Unions

Guest blogger John S. James is a Psychometrist at California State University, Chico and the Vice President of Academic Professionals of California. The Assault on Public Employee Unions Over the past...

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Online Disruption, Privatization of Public Higher Ed

Guest blogger Steve Teixeira serves on the Executive Board of Academic Professionals of California, representing professional staff in academic support services of the California State University....

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Western Governors University (WGU) Is in Your State: Deconstructing the Academy

M4 Rally, CSU Long Beach Western Governors University (WGU) Is in Your State:  Deconstructing the Academy         Teri Yamada, Professor of Asian Studies, CSU Long Beach In our cultural echo chamber of...

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Transforming the Knowledge Plantation: “We Have a Dream”

By any measure of moral greatness,  a culture is judged by its treatment of the most vulnerable.  In the case of knowledge workers in our higher education sector that would be contingent and adjunct...

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We Are All Corporate Professors Now (and what to do about it): Summer Reading...

The Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) is the largest (and only public) university in Cambodia. To teach there you must be registered as a member of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP).Photo taken by...

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How the American University Was Killed, in Five Easy Steps

University Burnout from “Higher education is burning out its Employees,” the British Psychological Society’s “Occupational Digest” ( Friday, 29 July 2011). The post below is reblogged from  “The...

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Fear and Trembling: Nov. 6 and Public Higher Ed.

Hurricane Sandy and New York City Our hearts go out to our colleagues and everyone on the East Coast battered by  Hurricane Sandy, the second October megastorm in two years.   May an outcome  of this...

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised : Deconstructing the CFHE News Briefing...

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised : Deconstructing the  CFHE News Briefing (February 12, 2013) on Funding Hi Ed. Teri Yamada, Prof. of Asian Studies, CSU Long Beach “Contemporary society, observed...

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University Students and Cambodia’s January Violence: Global Lessons from...

Massive public demonstrations in Phnom Penh, December 2013 by Teri Yamada, CSU Long Beach “It seems logical: College graduates have lower unemployment and earn more than less educated workers, so, the...

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