...Leo Parascondola Leo Parascondola Crossing the Remedial Bridge: Political Economy, Contingent Labor, and Differentiation Strategies in Higher Education This essay analyzes the creation of a particular type of adult literacy education, the college preparation "bridge...

...Michelle A. Massé © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Works Cited Bartholomae David . Education in the Balance: A Report on the Academic Workforce in English . Report of the 2007 ADE Ad Hoc Committee on Staffing . Modern Language Association . 10 Dec. 2008 . < http...

... these scholars teach. Employing previously unprocessed data from Statistics Canada and in dialogue with research on higher education, including the writings of Pierre Bourdieu, this article discusses the mechanisms through which faculty hiring patterns in Canadian English departments are strongly tied to PhD...

..., the two met and discussed on national television the nature of politics and higher education, with predictable obtuseness on the part of O’Reilly. Nothing was concluded or conceded, and arguably nothing was learned. Yet both did portend a fundamental change to the operation of American political life...

... development of Chinese higher education, he is also concerned with its obsession with money, which can produce quick returns but long-term disaster. An overemphasis on technology and science, as well as on business and economics, will harm the great legacy of Chinese literature and art. He points out...

...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...

... of the negative and positive hermeneutics of the utopian method (as seen in Jameson and Levitas) and then focus on the early stages of consciousness raising in a utopian process that does not abstractly declare hope but rather concretely educates and activates it (doing so through the examples of Freire's...

...Hannah Gurman © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Works Cited American Council on Education . “Working Their Way Through College: Student Employment and its Impact on the College Experience.” ACE Issue Brief . May 2006 . < http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?template=/CM...

... these students overseas? Why not relocate higher education offshore? I’ve read Friedman. I know the world is flat. I’ve heard the reports on NPR about the low cost of high-risk surgery in the developing world. If middle-class Midwesterners can fly to Mumbai...

... history to the early twentieth century and programs like the Bryn Mawt summer school for working women. As Dorothy Sue Cobble has noted, these early forms of worker education emphasized culture—art, literature, philosophy, music—as avenues for worker self-activity and expression. While...

... . Bloom Allan . The Closing of the American Mind . New York : Penguin , 1988 . Bousquet Marc . “The Waste Product of Graduate Education: Toward a Dictatorship of the Flexible.” Social Text 70 ( Spring 2002 ): 81 - 104 . Boyer Ernest L. Scholarship Reconsidered...

... American University Pamphlet .” Tempe : ASU , 2008 . Blumenstyk Goldie . “ Knowledge Is ‘a Form of Venture Capital’ for a Top Columbia Administrator .” Chronicle of Higher Education ( 9 Feb. 2001 ): A29 . Bousquet Marc . How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low...

...Mary Soliday Mary Soliday How to Win Your Argument In Higher Ed Without Spending One Red Cent MEMO TO: Conservative Critics of Standards in Public Higher Education FROM: A Colleague RE: How We Restratified a Municipal University in the 1990s (CUNY); OR, How to Win Your...

..., ethical, and thoughtful sense of what criticism can do for people and ideas. The urgent need to theorize and organize in response to the impoverishment of higher education stems from this awareness that thoughtful education and intellectual practices are threatened and worth fighting for. Decline...

..., but the 1947 Truman Commission on Higher Education for American Democracy (which later spurred the 1958 NDEA) provided the political discourse to translate these events into US funding for science education. These federal resources would propel me (and my generation) right...

...Maurice S. Lee © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 Jim Cocola How the University Unmakes (on Marc Bousquet’s How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation [New York: NYU P, 2008], Christopher Newfield’s Unmaking the Public University...

..., a 146 the minnesota review high-school-educated police recruit in 2009 generally earns a salary of between thirty and forty thousand dollars, or about twice what a doctoral student earns during graduate school. Today’s starting salaries for 20- or 21-year...

... . < http://www.scu.edu/jesuits/ellacuria.html >. Engell James Dangerfield Anthony . Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money . Charlottesville : U of Virginia P , 2005 . Flexner Abraham . Universities: American, English, German . New York : Oxford UP , 1930...

... instructors, lecturers, and "adjuncts." Predictably, these line items get most noticed during times of budget stress, which is more and more turning out to be all the time in public institutions of higher education. Training in analytical writing has been a component of higher education...

...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Jeffrey J. Williams Higher Exploitation: An Interview with Marc Bousquet For the past decade, Marc Bousquet has been one of the most trenchant critics of labor practices in higher education, especially...