Rule one of #accountability: blame whoever looks behind the curtain.

Letter to John Cabot University about #adjunct lecturers pressured to produce unpaid #research for #accreditation metrics - officially unacknowledged: https://tinyurl.com/ruat-caelum

#johncabotuniversity
#jcurome
#university
#italy
#rome

From the HELU newsletter: fighting instructor layoffs at the University of Arizona

#contingent #adjunct #HigherEd

https://higheredlaborunited.org/2025/07/22/contingent-labor-at-the-university-of-arizona-one-damn-thing-after-another/

Me this morning reading the news about the low levels of funding in the humanities:

#adjunct

Interesting if true: adjunct unpaid labor claim in CA upheld via Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Adjuncts/comments/1hk2mmf/this_rules/

#HigherEd #adjunct #labor

I appreciate Matthew Kirschenbaum & Rita Raley’s attention to labor conditions when they write of the burdens that “fall disproportionately on those who may not have the luxury of engaging otherwise: not only those with obscene course loads but also instructors who do not set their own syllabi, writing center tutors, and the staffers in teaching resource centers.”

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/pmla/article/ai-and-the-university-as-a-service/65E10EB58786CDAAC762DD23CC5D4D9B

#AI #HigherEd #TeachingWriting #adjunct #labor #CriticalEdTech

Interesting discussion here comparing Higher Ed Labor United (HELU) and the Coalition on Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL): https://higheredlaborunited.org/2024/08/22/helu-cocal-can-we-talk/

Come for the institutional history; stay for the fantastic "Octopus of the Knowledge Economy" infographic.

#HELU #COCAL #labor #union #adjunct #HigherEd