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é.Jul 29, 2023

while there are things about our living situation that are hard or unpleasant, this week I found myself feeling some ease—the kind that is only possible when you know you won't have to give away or pack away your things and yet again move to a new place, start a new job at a new institution, and figure out what your life will look like this year.

being placed makes the human work of housekeeping and artmaking possible.

#ContingentAcademia #ThePrecarityTax #AcademicLabor

David Jekel Jul 2, 2023

This week graduate students and a postdoc at UC San Diego got arrested and charged with 'vandalism' and 'conspiracy' for a labor protest. They wrote with chalk and washable paint about the fact that the University has not paid them enough as dictated by the union contract and table talk. The University, specifically the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, changed their appointment percentage from 50% to 43% in order to avoid giving them a raise.

Here is a local news article about it: https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/06/30/uc-san-diego-student-workers-arrested-after-allegations-of-conspiracy-and-vandalism

They are gathering signatures on this petition:
https://www.change.org/p/tell-uc-to-drop-their-charges-against-protesting-workers

Please share it widely!

A couple weeks ago, the university leveled student conduct violations against grad students who staged a protest at an alumni event about the same labor violations from the university, and other similar issues. They accused the students of assaulting the chancellor and threatening health and safety, when the action was completely nonviolent. The student conduct process is still ongoing...

In summary, the university's retaliation is very overpowered compared to the modest demands and peaceful demonstrations from the grad student and postdoc workers.

Moreover, this is another reminder that the cops are not your friends, no matter how nicely you behave.

#AcademicLabor #HotLaborSummer #AllCopsAreBad

UC San Diego student workers arrested after allegations of conspiracy and vandalism

Three student workers were arrested and jailed following allegations from UCSD of felony conspiracy and vandalism. They are members of UAW Local 2865, which says the university administration has refused to implement their new contracts ratified last December.

KPBS

Matthew Cheney Mar 28, 2023

"Blaming education for the fallout of decisions made by employers & policy makers ultimately established the chronically weak political status of education and provided justification for decades of misplaced reforms in both K–12 and higher education. And the assumption became entrenched that individuals not thriving in the so-called knowledge economy should take personal responsibility for their educational and skill deficits."
http://www.aaup.org/article/mythical-labor-markets-and-demographic-crises-education-reform-movement

#Academia #Labor #AcademicLabor #Education

Mythical Labor Markets and Demographic Crises of the Education Reform Movement

The Agile College: How Institutions Successfully Navigate Demographic Changes by Nathan D. Grawe. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2021. Economist Nathan Grawe’s 2018 Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education set off shock waves in the higher education community by crystallizing the “demographic-cliff” narrative. Grawe argued that the nation faced the prospect of substantially fewer students attending college in the coming years, a decline that would necessarily be destructive to a tuition-driven system.

AAUP

jess rauchberg Mar 18, 2023

Hello Mastodon! I know it's been a minute, but my new essay on academic labor, diversity, and tenure-track academic jobs is out now in the Journal of Applied Communication Research. Please read and share!

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00909882.2023.2173532?src=

#Commodon #CommunicationStudies #MediaStudies #AcademicLabor #Diversity

The labor of diversity in the 2020–2021 U.S. communication job market

Following George Floyd’s murder in 2020, academia pursued a policy of diversity, noticeable in the job advertisements for the following academic year. This article analyzes 77 tenure-track position...

Taylor & Francis

Mara Caelin Jan 9, 2023

After DECADES of hard work, the #GraduateStudentWorkers at Yale just won their union election with 91% of votes!

Not only is this awesome for them, but unionized #labor at #Yale just added more than 3,000 workers to our ranks! I’m so happy and excited!

Welcome into the fold, #Local33!

#SolidarityForever #UniteHere #UniteHereLocal33 #UniteHereLocal34 #Academia #AcademicLabor

anthrodendum Dec 14, 2022

What makes a job ad “terrible”?
On September 18, 2021, Dada Docot launched what she called “Search for 2021 Worst Anthro Job Ads.” Taking place on Twitter, this “contest” brought public attention to conversations that often happen in private between friends and colleagues who may bemoan the state of the job market and the endlessly multiplying requirements of job ads but feel relati
https://anthrodendum.org/2022/12/13/what-makes-a-job-ad-terrible/
#BlogPost #academiclabor #Jobhunting

What makes a job ad “terrible”? | anthro{dendum}

This eventually resulted in the open access article: The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 2021 which was recently published in American Anthropologist. Hopefully this article will bring even more attention…

anthro{dendum}

Smaran Dayal Dec 10, 2022

bell hooks would have supported the #newschool #strike. Very sad to see what’s happening up the street. Baldwin and bell hooks would not have wanted this. (If this subtoot is cryptic, please look up updates on the New School strike.) #academiclabor #dei #academicmastodon #litstudies @litstudies

Smaran Dayal Nov 20, 2022

In case any UC profs follow me on here: If you get the chance and haven’t yet, do head out to the pickets. It meant a *lot* to us at NYU in Spring of last year when our profs came to the picket line to encourage us, participate, and show support. You’ll win major kudos with the grads. And look, they’re making such fun tiktoks.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRQqqJVb/

#uc #strike #gradstudent #academiclabor #academicmastodon #ucberkeley #litstudies @litstudies