This Christmas: ask not what your admin gives to you ā
ask what you can give to the admin. All year round.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO4uYSWn0C8
Any similarity with actual facts can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/ruat-caelum
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Because nothing says #ethics and #integrity better than unpaid #research ...
In what way does pressuring freelance lecturers on teaching-only contracts to provide unpaid research for accreditation metrics, reflect the principle of Ethics and Integrity that John Cabot University claims to uphold?
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Accreditation at John Cabot University: The Making Of ...
You cannot improve on zero-cost #research. Or can you, John Cabot University?1?
Complete documentation: https://tinyurl.com/ruat-caelum
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"The working conditions of the teachers are the learning conditions of the students."
Professors employed on teaching-only contracts should not be pressured to publish #research needed for #accreditation, under threat of losing their teaching jobs.
My letter to the Board of Trustees of John Cabot University: https://tinyurl.com/ruat-caelum
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Hear ye, hear ye!
My July 30, 2025 letter to the Board of Trustees of John Cabot University in Rome, raising the issue of lecturers employed on teaching-only contracts pressured to provide unpaid #research in order to meet #accreditation metrics, remains, to date, officially unacknowledged and it is now in the public domain: https://tinyurl.com/ruat-caelum
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The Writing on the Wall ...
My July 30, 2025 letter to the Board of Trustees of John Cabot University about lecturers employed on teaching-only contracts pressured to provide unpaid #research needed for #accreditation remains officially unacknowledged.
https://tinyurl.com/ruat-caelum
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Thanks-asking at John Cabot University Frank J. Guarini School of Business: Instead of #thanksgiving for the unpaid #research needed for #accreditation, maybe start paying the teaching-only lecturers who produce it. Give them something to be thankful for!
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The Silence of John Cabot University ...
My July 30, 2025 letter to the Board of Trustees of John Cabot University remains to date, officially unacknowledged and it is now in the public domain: https://tinyurl.com/ruat-caelum
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An hour in the life of a comment on John Cabot University's LinkedIn page:
13:57 Comment posted (28 minutes before)
14:37 Comment disappeared
14:42 Comment posted again. With clarifications.
Background story: https://tinyurl.com/ruat-caelum
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I used to think 'Gone with the Wind' was wonderfully romantic...and then I served as Adjunct Faculty at an American university.
The details of my experience at John Cabot University in Rome are now in the public domain: tinyurl.com/ruat-caelum
"Thea was exploited by a system that consumes thoughtful, committed academics like our beloved friend, even as it is reluctant to admit it."
US #universities are nearly all in the red, financially.
1. Yes, funding #publicEducation costs money
2. Research shows increasing #tuition costs are overwhelmingly because of (a) state reductions in per-student financing and (b) #AdministrativeBloat
Naturally, every upper administrator (and #university system) thinks the obvious fix is to cut #faculty, destroy #tenure, increase class sizes, remove majors, hire #adjuncts, and otherwise degrade academics--you know, the thing universities are about.
MY RADICAL SUGGESTIONS:
1. Fucking fund universities, you cowards
2. If you need to cut costs, start with the things that don't contribute to academics, like (a) administrative costs, (b) sports programs, (c) police and other non-academic programs using resources
3. Stop letting people in suits who know nothing about education and/or about business (and definitely about the ways universities and businesses are and are not similar) make the decisions
It's easy to get bored with courses you teach a lot. The same material, same assignments, and same examples make it hard to stay motivated.
On our blog, Tala Khanmalek shares how you can refresh your "bread and butter" courses to avoid burnout.
https://ideasonfire.net/refreshing-your-courses/
#Teaching #Pedagogy #IdeasOnFire #PhDLife #TenureTrack #Adjuncts #ContingentFaculty #GradSchool #TeachingAssistant #ProfessorLife
Just want to re-introduce myself since so many of you have responded to my posting an article about Texas going after #booksellers #bookstores in an effort to #ban #books. Iām here because I want to be on the record against #censorship, for #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech; for #academicfreedom and the rights of #adjuncts. So welcome and I hope you can put up w/occasional attempts at self-promotion. (I write and occasionally publish stuff.) Peace out.
If you have a moment and inclination, please sign this petition for fair pay for UH English Department graduate students and adjuncts.
We're gearing up to protest for pay that'll be a living wage in Houston! Pay for grad students hasn't changed for ten years, and it hasn't been raised for adjuncts in almost thirty years. Currently, for full-time work, both come out to about 20K after taxes. https://chng.it/ZGx8ZGBC
State audit finds that CA community colleges hire too many poorly paid #adjuncts and misuse state funds intended to pay for full-time #faculty. https://edsource.org/2023/california-community-colleges-rely-too-much-on-part-time-faculty-and-misspend-funds-audit-finds/686030?
The Hamline controversy and the real threat to academic freedom
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/1/22/the-hamline-controversy-and-the-real-threat-to-academic-freedom
Xclnt analysis, Marxist in its insights (no idea whether author is self-identified as a Marxist). Note it's consistent with trends in US towards greater exploitation, greater austerity, for working people--including in academia. Capitalism makes us all poorer--save for the already very rich.
#Adjuncts #Academic #Poverty #JobInsecurity
An interesting piece that's making the rounds, developing some important points. It's about History but relevant to other fields. What's missing is discussion of the lack of solidarity TT profs often show towards adjuncts all the time, not just in strikes
https://contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a-profession-if-you-can-keep-it/
#Education #Adjuncts #Meritocracy #Hierarchy #HigherEd
I remember reading #whitenoise in the day, in the last bit of the golden academic evening, before it all became petty #costcutting, exploited #adjuncts, and adminstrative CEOS. Baumbach's film is a history film - that academic world is as gone as anything is gone.
