Tenure for the Common Good urges everyone to call in support of this measure!

Call Senator Patty Murray! This legislation could change everything.

Wednesday is the national day of action!

I can’t even express how excited I am that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has tweeted & praised this worker coops piece from Economic Hardship Reporting Project this affirmative piece on worker power has been my dream for over a year, now executed by six great photographers & me and Mark Murrmann Mother Jones Solutions Journalism Network

Our members Ian Gavigan Ian Gavigan and Jennifer Mittelstadt @[email protected] Jennifer Mittelstadt writing in Dissent Magazine Dissent magazine. To remake higher education as a public good, we'll have to fight and win at the national level. Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education #highered dissentmagazine.org/article/a-new-…

Excellent article

1. 🧵 Tomorrow, the UniversitySystemofGA is expected to vote to end tenure for Georgia's public universities. The AAUP has warned that this move will destroy protections for academic freedom, which is indispensable for the quality of teaching and research in higher education.

Excellent explanation of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of the new budget proposal. "This proposal is a major blow to adjunctification, and it will help many of the roughly three million people in this country who are either doctoral students or part-time faculty members."

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Wow, this is so bad. Columbia invented some numbers outright & excluded transfer students and NTT faculty to get other stats.

Ph.D. + $0 for classroom teaching? Anemona Hartocollis reports the UCLA adjunct job posting scandal. nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/… TenureForCommonGood tried persuading U.S. News & World Report to factor adjuncting into rankings. Nope. My history of adjuncting in Digital Humanities: pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/eng_fac/88/

That’s our statement- we hope others will write similar ones!

Great interview with Wendy Brown. The real threat to academia isn't wokeness but "adjunctification, corporatization and then the rankings-and-rating systems of programs and faculties and individual academics." nytimes.com/interactive/20…

TFCG gets a shout-out in Chapter 2! google.com/books/edition/…

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