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| − | <span style="display: block; text-align: center | + | <div id="content_view" class="wiki" style="display: block"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'">The George Mason University Public Sociology Association and</span>'''</span><br /> <span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'">[http://inosa.mayfirst.org/ International Network of Scholar Activists] (INoSA) </span>'''</span><br /> <span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'">Invite you to a</span>'''</span><br /> <br /> <span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 21.3333px">People's Movement Assembly</span>'''</span><br /> <span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 29.3333px">The Changing Landscape of Higher Education: </span>'''</span><br /> <span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 29.3333px">Austerity, Precarity & Graduate Student Workers</span>'''</span><br /> <span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'">October 18, 2014 </span>'''</span><br /> <span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'">George Mason University, Founder’s Hall, Arlington, VA</span>'''</span><br /> |
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| − | <span style="display: block; text-align: center;">'''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';"> | + | <br /> '''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'">12:00 Noon - 1:30PM Part 1: </span>'''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'">The economic and political context of academic work & Visioning alternatives</span><br /> <br /> '''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'">1:30-3:00 PM Part 2: </span>'''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'">Developing Networks & Strategies for Change</span><br /> <br /> '''''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'">*Please register to help us ensure everyone has a lunch! </span>'''''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'">[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_RHC_EUEvo7_QtBpDA0thn_0Yiq6ik012GFeHuUo9Vw/viewform Register] via our website or send email to: [mailto:gmusocgrads@gmail.com gmusocgrads@gmail.com] </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'">The Peoples Movement Assembly is part of the 4th Annual Public Sociology Conference (Re)Visions Of The Future: Public Sociology, Environmental Justice, & the Crisis of Climate Change. At George Mason University. For more information visit [http://gmupublicsoci.wordpress.com/public-soci-grad-conference/ our website]. </span><br /> <br /> '''<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'">---------------- </span>'''<br /> |
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| − | <span style="font-family: | + | * '''[http://adjunct.chronicle.com/who-is-professor-staff/ Who is Professor Staff? ]'''by [http://www.futureofhighered.org/Research_Center.html Center for the Future of Higher Education (CFHE)] and [http://newfacultymajority.info/equity/ New Faculty Majority (NFM) ]Just in time for fall semester, the second report from the Center for the Future of Higher Education is now out. Entitled, [http://www.futureofhighered.org/uploads/ProfStaffFinal.pdf Who is Professor "Staff" and How Can This Person Teach So Many Classes?] the report critiques the trends in higher education employment that have rapidly moved in the direction of a low wage and high tuition model. '''[http://adjunct.chronicle.com/who-is-professor-staff/ Read more.]''' |
| + | * '''[http://www.salon.com/2014/09/21/professors_on_food_stamps_the_shocking_true_story_of_academia_in_2014/?source=newsletter Professors on food stamps]''' (Salon.com Sept. 21, 2014) "...The most shocking thing is that many of us don't even earn the federal minimum wage, said Miranda Merklein, an adjunct professor from Santa Fe who started teaching in 2008. Our students didn't know that professors with PhDs aren't even earning as much as an entry-level fast food worker. We're not calling for the $15 minimum wage. We don't even make minimum wage. And we have no benefits and no job security. '''[http://www.salon.com/2014/09/21/professors_on_food_stamps_the_shocking_true_story_of_academia_in_2014/?source=newsletter Read more.]''' | ||
| + | * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Academic Workers Fight Back '''[http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/17/you-are-not-loan-rolling-jubilee-abolishes-millions-student-debt "You are not a Loan" Says Strike Debt]'''</span> | ||
| + | * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">'''[http://commondreams.org/news/2014/11/13/unforgiven-how-college-debt-crushing-generation-and-solution Student Loan Crisis and Solutions]'''</span> | ||
| + | * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>[http://commondreams.org/views/2014/11/13/gates-plan-eliminating-student-debt An estate tax can fund higher ed/eliminate loan burden--Bill Gates (Sr.)] | ||
| + | <br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">'''Corporatization of Universities & Movements of Resistance'''</span><br /> <br /> | ||
| − | + | * [http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/mayjun14/asaforum_0514.html The Open Access Movement and Activism for the 'Knowledge Commons' ]Jackie Smith, Editor of the ''[http://www.jwsr.org/ Journal of World-Systems Research].'' | |
| − | + | * ''[http://www.openaccessweek.org/ Open Access Week ]is October 20-26, 2014. Contact your local librarian!'' | |
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Latest revision as of 12:51, 3 June 2018
The George Mason University Public Sociology Association and
International Network of Scholar Activists (INoSA)
Invite you to a
People's Movement Assembly
The Changing Landscape of Higher Education:
Austerity, Precarity & Graduate Student Workers
October 18, 2014
George Mason University, Founder’s Hall, Arlington, VA
International Network of Scholar Activists (INoSA)
Invite you to a
People's Movement Assembly
The Changing Landscape of Higher Education:
Austerity, Precarity & Graduate Student Workers
October 18, 2014
George Mason University, Founder’s Hall, Arlington, VA
Program
12:00 Noon - 1:30PM Part 1: The economic and political context of academic work & Visioning alternatives
1:30-3:00 PM Part 2: Developing Networks & Strategies for Change
*Please register to help us ensure everyone has a lunch! Register via our website or send email to: gmusocgrads@gmail.com
The Peoples Movement Assembly is part of the 4th Annual Public Sociology Conference (Re)Visions Of The Future: Public Sociology, Environmental Justice, & the Crisis of Climate Change. At George Mason University. For more information visit our website.
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Background Readings:
- Who is Professor Staff? by Center for the Future of Higher Education (CFHE) and New Faculty Majority (NFM) Just in time for fall semester, the second report from the Center for the Future of Higher Education is now out. Entitled, Who is Professor "Staff" and How Can This Person Teach So Many Classes? the report critiques the trends in higher education employment that have rapidly moved in the direction of a low wage and high tuition model. Read more.
- Professors on food stamps (Salon.com Sept. 21, 2014) "...The most shocking thing is that many of us don't even earn the federal minimum wage, said Miranda Merklein, an adjunct professor from Santa Fe who started teaching in 2008. Our students didn't know that professors with PhDs aren't even earning as much as an entry-level fast food worker. We're not calling for the $15 minimum wage. We don't even make minimum wage. And we have no benefits and no job security. Read more.
- Academic Workers Fight Back "You are not a Loan" Says Strike Debt
- Student Loan Crisis and Solutions
- An estate tax can fund higher ed/eliminate loan burden--Bill Gates (Sr.)
Corporatization of Universities & Movements of Resistance
- The Open Access Movement and Activism for the 'Knowledge Commons' Jackie Smith, Editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research.
- Open Access Week is October 20-26, 2014. Contact your local librarian!
