Corporate University

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• Question from a reader: older and looking for work

  
  Chris Backe - AKA Chris in South Korea — Authority: 496
  A reader whom Ill keep anonymous writes the following: There is no work here to speak of in [state redacted for privacy] with the recession / depression and I have made up my mind to work overseas. I did it once before from 1990-1993. I tutored mostly adults English in Taiwan, Austria, Greece, and Spain. Loved the ...
  3 days ago

• New Student Occupations In Croatia

  
  Student Activism — Authority: 552
  In the spring of this year a wave of campus occupations swept Croatia, beginning with the takeover of the school of humanities and social sciences at the University of Zagreb on April 20. The protesters demanded free and universally available higher education, and by the end of their campaign all or part of twenty ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning (Paperback)

  
  Art Journals — Authority: 144
  The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning (Paperback)…
  2 weeks ago

• The UC Student Fee Protests: What Happened Thursday

  
  Student Activism — Authority: 552
  I’ve just put up a short think piece about the events of the last few days at the University of California, but those events are worth describing in detail — particularly since they’re a long way from over. Here’s what happened yesterday: The UC Regents, as expected, voted to impose huge fee increase on ...
  2 weeks ago

• California is Burning

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 452
  Update: you’ve got to watch this video . Yesterday the UC Regents walked into a room packed with gasoline and nonchalantly lit their cigars–handing down tuition increases that will hike 2010 rates 44% over 2008, turning higher ed into a gated community for the offspring of California’s “Real ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pay to Work? GEO Says No!

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 452
  Does your idea of public higher education include values like fairness and diversity? Yeah, me too. Ditto for the several hundred grad students drumming in the rain in Illinois today, after their union struck to defend tuition waivers.Get updates and join their 2,500 fans on the GEO Facebook page . Charging tuition ...
  3 weeks ago

• Festive Disobedience, or, Direct Action Can Be Fun

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 452
  Everywhere you look, students and faculty are hitting the streets–digital music in their ears, cell phone cameras in hand, uploading their manifestos from occupied dean’s offices. It turns out civil disobedience doesn’t have to be boring. The membership of the grad student union at the University of Illinois ...
  4 weeks ago

• Student Protest Symposium in Zagreb

  
  Student Activism — Authority: 552
  I’ll be flying to Croatia in a few days for a three-day symposium on contemporary student activism. The meeting, “Student Protests of 2009: Methods, Context, and Implications,” (or, in the original Croatian, Studentski Prosvjedi 2009: Metode, Kontekst, I Implikacije ) is being sponsored by the Sociology ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Audacity of Audacity

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 452
  The 2000 students sitting in at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts ignited occupations at a handful of neighboring buildings and campuses, then leapt across Austria and into Germany (where already last summer a quarter million students, faculty, teachers, and parents struck to fight various sleazy American-model* ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Occupation Will Be Televised

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 452
  In response to the massive re-orientation of education toward job training, privatization and the standardization of curricular outcomes mandated by the Bologna Process , students across Europe have been turning out by the thousands. This past June, as many as 250,000 students, parents, schoolteachers, college ...
  6 weeks ago

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