Dispatches From the Culture Wars – October 8, 2024
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Season of showdowns
Season of showdowns
Season of showdowns
UARCs: The American Universities That Produce Warfighters
Monthly Review
Relations between universities and the U.S. military are not always mediated by the corporate industrial sector. American universities and the U.S. military are also linked directly and organizationally.
As Classes Start, Universities Begin a New Wave of Repression Against the Palestine Movement
Left Voice
University administrators are unleashing a fresh wave of attacks to discipline the Pro-Palestine movement. These draconian measures show the links between universities and the Zionist interests of the bipartisan regime.
“They Underestimated the Student Movement”: Paraguayan Youth Fight To Defend Affordable Education
NACLA
Education subsidy funding changes sparked mass protests. A weeks-long occupation of Paraguay’s largest university forced the right-wing government to the table. Those in power fear students organizing alongside unions and social organizations.
An Ode to Academic Joy
Common Dreams
Rather than pontificate on academic freedom, important though it is right now, I want to reflect on academic joy, about what can be so exciting about the life of the mind—even in the modern university.
‘An Existential Threat to American Higher Education’
The Atlantic
Conservative state legislatures and ideologically-driven boards want to dramatically change America’s colleges.
Sunday Science: Boston’s Colonial Universities Grab Land for Profit, War, and Medical Apartheid
The Mapping Project
Our interactive map illustrates some ways in which institutional support for the colonization of Palestine is structurally tied to policing and systemic white supremacy here where we live, and to US imperialist projects in other countries.
Tidbits – Nov. 17, 2022 – Reader Comments: Midterms – Right Rebuked, Struggles Continue; Learning From History; Biggest Academic Strike in US History; Lots of Announcements; Cartoons; More…
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Reader Comments: Midterms - Right Rebuked, Struggles Continue; Learning from History; Biggest Academic Strike in US History; Lots of Announcements; Cartoons; more....
Most US Professors Are Trained at Same Few Elite Universities
Nature
‘Jarring’ study reveals hiring bias at US institutions.
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How Contingent Faculty Organizing Can Succeed in Higher Education
New Politics
They are highly educated, poorly paid, absent union backing and part of the metastasizing precariat. They are also organizing. Two veterans of the contingent college adjunct’s struggle ably tell the story, as reviewed by a veteran labor militant.
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