I’ve been going through old files on my computer, finding a trail of graduate school work, some of which I’m going to hone for more formal publications and others that read more like academic diaries of a woman trying to figure out who she was…
Happy to report that the group I helped to found this semester, CUNY’s Digital Labor Working Group, was featured in The Atlantic today: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/5-intriguing-things-supercomputers-digital-labor-sexttering-wolfram-e-discovery/281638/
I’m excited that the CUNY Advocate has asked me to write about labor issues (and other thoughts too!) in Higher Education. Here’s my latest piece: “What’s At Stake in Graduate Student Organizing.” If you happen to visit the most recent updates to the CUNY Graduate…
It’s not an understatement to say that I was shocked when I learned last semester that my home institution thought it was appropriate to hire David Petraeus as an adjunct professor at the Macaulay Honors College. As a fellow in the Honors College, a place…
In 2009, the Chronicle of Higher Education ran an “advice” piece entitled “Graduate School in the Humanities: Don’t Go.” In the article, Professor William Pannapacker (ironically of Hope College) proceeded to get real and lay down some truth for aspiring seekers of higher education: there are no…
A One Day Mini-Conference Friday April 26 at the Graduate Center Room 9206/9207 FREE Livestream at: http://videostreaming.gc.cuny.edu/videos/ This conference responds to the widespread perception among activists and students of the labor movement that the US unions are in severe crisis. We will try to explore…
Faculty and graduate students got together yesterday at the “University Beyond Crisis” mini-conference, hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center, to talk about “what is to be done,” and, unfortunately, I could only get to the last panel, entitled “The University as an Object of Knowledge.”…
“This isn’t just about money. Reducing graduate education to graduation rates and economic benchmarks (such as job prospects or projected income of graduates) actually impoverishes the quality of PhD and MA study. A significant part of our education, as well as our professional and political…