Higher Education
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Contingent Faculty of the World Unite!
This post was originally featured in the New Labor Forum. Want to dig deeper into organizing strategies for contingent faculty? Join us at our upcoming forum Organizing the Academic Precariat: Perspectives on National Trends and Recent Successes on March 24th and hear from Malini Cadambi Daniel and others. By Malini Cadambi Daniel The once hallowed…
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Cooperative Business and the State of Higher Education
Cooperative business models are increasingly recognized as an essential element for transforming our economy. But where can you go to learn about them? In a recent article in the Chronicle Review (Curricular Cop-out on Coops), Nathan Schneider offers a somewhat dispiriting picture of the higher education landscape for cooperative economics. He writes: Education has been a basic…
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Harvard Dining Service Workers Commence Strike
This morning, Harvard dining service workers walked off the job and went on strike. This marks the first walk out at the University since 1983. Today’s strike saw 700 workers rallying in Science Center Plaza and marching to Massachusetts Hall. From the Harvard Crimson: Over the course of the months-long bargaining—which began mid-June—Harvard and union…
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Prof. Steve Brier Publishes Book on Austerity and Public Education
We are please to announce the recent publication of a new book from Murphy Institute consortial faculty member Prof. Steve Brier, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Co-authored with Michael Fabricant, Austerity Blues examines the social consequences of disinvestment in public higher education, particularly its effects on…
