Part 2 provides further reason to criticize the AAUP team for the irony and absurdity of its response to what ails HE. The aim is to open the eyes of the AAUP
team to their folly and force proper consideration of the PSA model. It is
recommended that Part 1 be read before continuing, but the following content
can be managed without it.
Professional Society of Academics
You are invited to explore alternative higher education models. The professional and co-operative models I develop treat academics as entrepreneurs, not institutional employees. These alternatives are original and do not rely on the increased use of technology, public funding or venture capitalism; while they offer the possibility of sustainable, high quality, affordable, accessible, and equitable academic service. Consider the Professional Model: http://bit.ly/NewTenderForHE
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Irony and Absurdity in the AAUP – Part 2
Friday, February 9, 2024
Irony and Absurdity in the AAUP – Part 1
In her Academe piece, Political Repression and the AAUP from 1915 to Present, Schrecker notes in passing that:
Unlike their equally well-educated peers in law and medicine who had the power to delineate the parameters of their professions, the distinguished academics who established the AAUP did not have complete control over their work lives. They were salaried workers, subject to the authority of boards of trustees, whose members included some of the most powerful industrialists in the United States.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
PSA Takes Its Liberalism with a Dash of Neo
Sunday, September 17, 2023
Who’s Ready to Take Risks for the Rewards of PSA?
Dr Lisa Corrigan of the University of Arkansas is doing what is expected of an academic. She is using her experience and expertise to engage with periods of deep social change. She has a vision of what higher education (HE) should be, including how it is meant to impact and be impacted by people. Given that HE is an important pillar of modern societies, the affected people are arguably every member of society. The battleground of social change in question is located in West Virginia, where its flagship R1 university has cut 28 programs from across its 355 majors and 143 of its 6,000+ full and part-time faculty. She is not alone in condemning what the consultants and administrators call, “rightsizing” the higher education institution (HEI). A wide audience has been following the case of West Virginia University (WVU), with many joining the local chorus of condemnation that includes: students, faculty, politicians, unions, taxpayers, even a notable from my neck of the woods, author Margret Atwood.
Sunday, September 3, 2023
Monopolistic Universities and Colleges Violate Rights
Within the higher education institutional (HEI) model of universities and colleges, labor rights and anti-trust issues conspire to hinder mitigation of the problems that plague higher education (HE). Under the HEI model some problems are obvious like rising student tuition and falling faculty compensation, while others are more subtle like the vocationalization of HE purpose and limitation of faculty mobility. We need to remove these hinderances and introduce a better model for the provision of HE.
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