[Marxism] Adjunct abuse

[Greg Dunkel]

Last June, I believe, the City Univ of NY, a "small" institution with "just" 244,000 students, where adjuncts teach over 50% of the courses, graduated its first student who was taught completely over the internet -- a complete product of distance learning.

Outsourcing is coming to a service industry where unions are traditionally strong.

/greg

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jon Flanders <jonflanders at jflan.net>
>Sent: Dec 3, 2008 9:38 PM
>To: gdunkel at mindspring.com
>Subject: Re: [Marxism] Adjunct abuse
>
>
>On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 21:15 -0500, Mark Lause wrote:
>> This is a key question.  If it's not going to faculty as a whole,
>> we're never going to be able to do more than wage a holding action.
>
>I suspect today's report in the NY Times reporting on the rising cost of
>higher education may be an opening salvo against college faculty pay and
>benefits.
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/education/03college.html?_r=1&em
>
>
>You profs may be joining the autoworkers on the breadlines sooner than
>you think.
>
>Jon Flanders