...Katie Hogan © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Katie Hogan What Is Criticism on Academic Labor For? There is a new criticism of academic labor, advocating both respect for intellectual work and equitable material conditions for students and faculty. This latest strand of criticism...

...Charlotte A. Kunkel; Sheila Radford-Hill Scholars often debate the history of academic freedom, including efforts across the political spectrum to redefine its policies and practices. One fact that is sometimes overlooked in these debates is that students' educational experiences a re regularly...

... candidate valuation —this article poses an argument in favor of structural changes to the hiring process that would democratize faculty bodies at so-called top US institutions as well as throughout the academy. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 faculty hiring academic inequality institutional affiliation...

... and ``Bias'' in Higher Education . New York : Norton , 2006 . Burke 129 Timothy Burke The Obligations of Academic Freedom Many academics, including myself, rise to defend “academic freedom” in response to claims...

...Eric Leuschner © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Leuschner 137 Eric Leuschner Academic Memoir (on Elaine Showalter, Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents [Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2005...

... of the University: Right to Philosophy 2, trans. Jan Plug, et al. [Stanford: Stanford UP, 2004]; Ravinder Kaur Sidhu, Universities and Globalization: To Market, To Market [Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2006]; Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades, Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets...

...-Committed Academic Labor Graduate workers have enough professional organizations—what we need are unions that win gains and exert collective worker power on the job.1 Organizing graduate workers’ unions that can do these things also necessitates reorganizing our relationships...

... and sensationalism, a carnivalesque dinner party of festivity enjoyed by academics, media practitioners, and other cultural workers — the “discourse owners” of China’s global “cultural soft power” or “discourse power,” to use the new buzzwords. Missing, however, are well-grounded and seriously thought-out responses...

...Mitchell Gauvin What do experiential poet Bruce Andrews and former Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly have in common? On the surface, almost nothing—the former is a highly regarded, retired academic and the latter a disgraced TV host and conservative partisan. For a brief four minutes in 2006, however...

.... Unlike many contemporary thinkers on the academic left, Dean defines politics in terms of fundamental antagonism and advocates a return to party hierarchy and structure, which she is convinced are essential for achieving egalitarian goals. The interview helps connect the ideas threading through Dean’s...

... more terrorists. He also touches on the principles of managing his distinguished academic journal Critical Inquiry . © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Works Cited Bucknell Brad Wiesenthal Christine Mitchell W. J. T. . 2000 . “ An Interview with W. J. T. Mitchell: Essays...

... Association of Women Legal Advocacy Fund , 2004 . Bauer Dale . “ Academic Housework: Women's Studies and Second Shifting .” Women's Studies on Its Own . Ed. Wiegman Robyn . Durham : Duke UP , 2004 . 245 - 257 . Bird Sharon Litt Jacquelyn Wang Yong . “ Creating Status...

... . Fish Stanley . `` Consequences .'' Critical Inquiry 11 ( March 1985 ): 433 - 58 . Graff Gerald . Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind . New Haven : Yale UP , 2003 . Sacks Oliver . `` The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat .'' The Man Who...

... of the outside world—if it ever existed, exists no more. Higher education in this country is a colossal industry, increasingly ruled by the imperatives of the marketplace. Academic freedom is threatened, not by graduate student assistants (GAs) demanding input into decisions that affect their working...

... than 1,300 Institutions . 18 Apr. 2008 . < http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i32/32a02001.htm >. Harvey David . Conditions of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change . Cambridge, MA : Blackwell , 1989 . Keller George . Academic Strategy...

... and First-Generation University Students with English Doctorates in Canada Is the hiring of university professors more democratic in Canada than in the United States? In the United States, as Val Burris (2004: 239) explains, The prestige of the department in which an academic received a PhD consistently...

.... Things have changed a lot since 1968. But academic publishing still moves slowly. In perverse reversal of the history of money, intellectual currency is suspect if not backed by the solidity of paper. That’s what I’m here to write about. I’m an academic blogger. I’m...

..., abetted by the explosion of information in recent decades, has generated not simply duplication of discoveries, long a familiar phenomenon, but also of entire fields. Several academic areas devoted to the study of human-animal relationships have emerged almost simultaneously in recent decades...

... speaking, a healthy thing to have happened, I think the outcome was too much of a retrenchment of the academic and the arts communities, a withdrawal from the public sphere, because they didn't have the language to address the public effectively. Williams To go back to the "Reading at Risk...

..., seemingly effortlessly, cross the divide between academic and popular spheres. Against charges of political correctness in the academy which decried the relativism, postmodernism, and other crimes against humanism of young faculty, Bérubé launched onto the scene in the early 90s...