Pub Date : 2018-05-06DOI: 10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I31.186430
Peter Wylie
The focus of the paper is on internal governance and management at UBCO as it has evolved since 2005, in particular with respect to traditions of shared academic governance in university management. The paper is informed by the analysis of Ginsberg (2011), and is divided into four sections. The first discusses the insights of Ginsberg and how they can be applied in this case. The second discusses general issues of consultation, communication and commitment to shared academic governance by the senior administrators of the new campus. Third, budgetary management, accountability and transparency is discussed. Finally, strategic academic planning is analyzed, along with academic program review and performance. The paper ends with some concluding comments. To anticipate the results of the analysis, the paper tends to confirm the words attributed to Professor Henry Rosovsky, economic historian and past Acting President of Harvard University, that the quality of a university campus is likely “negatively correlated with the unrestrained power of administrators” (Ginsberg, 2011, p. 3). On this slope of correlation, UBCO is not an outlier.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-06DOI: 10.14288/CLOGIC.V22I0.190851
Toby Miller
There is a fundamental difficulty with the word ‘activism.’ This problem exists whether it is used in academic contexts or beyond. The term has been captured by the left. As broadly defined, it generally refers to volunteer and professional campaigners, theorists, and analysts who are dedicated to struggles against racism, misogyny, bigotry, war, economic inequality, and climate change…
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Pub Date : 2018-01-06DOI: 10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I30.186389
Stephen C. Ferguson, Gregory Meyerson
In this essay, from a Marxist perspective, we aim to examine the conceptual underpinnings of Coates’ analysis of race and racism, principally in his award-winning book but also in his well-known articles for The Atlantic . We hope to clarify the differences between Coates’ anti-racist (essentially liberal-nationalist) analysis and a Marxist (class) analysis of racism. We examine several antinomies that run throughout Coates’ work: class versus race, white freedom versus Black subordination, voluntarism versus determinism and essentialism versus anti-essentialism.
{"title":"Shred of Truth: Antinomy and Synecdoche in the Work of Ta-Nehisi Coates","authors":"Stephen C. Ferguson, Gregory Meyerson","doi":"10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I30.186389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I30.186389","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, from a Marxist perspective, we aim to examine the conceptual underpinnings of Coates’ analysis of race and racism, principally in his award-winning book but also in his well-known articles for The Atlantic . We hope to clarify the differences between Coates’ anti-racist (essentially liberal-nationalist) analysis and a Marxist (class) analysis of racism. We examine several antinomies that run throughout Coates’ work: class versus race, white freedom versus Black subordination, voluntarism versus determinism and essentialism versus anti-essentialism.","PeriodicalId":42624,"journal":{"name":"Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor","volume":"106 1","pages":"191-233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75736155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-06DOI: 10.14288/CLOGIC.V22I0.190863
Jill Mcdonough
{"title":"\"Amos D. Squire, Chief Physician of Sing Sing, 1914-1925\" and Other Poems","authors":"Jill Mcdonough","doi":"10.14288/CLOGIC.V22I0.190863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CLOGIC.V22I0.190863","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42624,"journal":{"name":"Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor","volume":"20 1","pages":"258-268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74241552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-06DOI: 10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I30.186384
Bennett Carpenter, Laura Goldblatt, Lenora Hanson, Karim Wissa, A. Yale
Critical approaches to the political landscape of higher education are often divided between suggesting either that the university is in such a ruins that it must be abandoned, or that it exists as one of the only vestiges of a public good that needs to be restored and defended. Here, we take an alternative approach to analyzing the crisis-ridden landscape of higher education: class composition, a term we inherit from militant co-research projects. As defined by Marta Malo de Molina, class composition is the “subjective structure of needs, behaviours and antagonist practices, sedimented through a long history of different struggles.” This use of composition seeks to understand how worker and student subjectivities are forged through antagonism and difference to capitalist exploitation and its investments in technology, development, and “progress.”
{"title":"Schol…Exodus? Learning Within/Against/Beyond the Institution","authors":"Bennett Carpenter, Laura Goldblatt, Lenora Hanson, Karim Wissa, A. Yale","doi":"10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I30.186384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I30.186384","url":null,"abstract":"Critical approaches to the political landscape of higher education are often divided between suggesting either that the university is in such a ruins that it must be abandoned, or that it exists as one of the only vestiges of a public good that needs to be restored and defended. Here, we take an alternative approach to analyzing the crisis-ridden landscape of higher education: class composition, a term we inherit from militant co-research projects. As defined by Marta Malo de Molina, class composition is the “subjective structure of needs, behaviours and antagonist practices, sedimented through a long history of different struggles.” This use of composition seeks to understand how worker and student subjectivities are forged through antagonism and difference to capitalist exploitation and its investments in technology, development, and “progress.”","PeriodicalId":42624,"journal":{"name":"Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor","volume":"15 1","pages":"106-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87950740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-06DOI: 10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I30.186385
J. Noonan
Economic crises are never just economic—they call into question the legitimacy of all major social institutions and the governing value system that unifies them into a hegemonic way of life. That is why crises are always moments of possibility for systemic change—the contradiction between the ruling value system and people’s life-requirements is exposed, opening a shared space for critical, democratic reflection on alternatives to a failing status quo. If democratic mobilization is to be defeated and the crisis resolved on the ruling class’s terms, new ways of running existing institutions must be devised.
{"title":"Resolving the Contradictions of Academic Unionism","authors":"J. Noonan","doi":"10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I30.186385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I30.186385","url":null,"abstract":"Economic crises are never just economic—they call into question the legitimacy of all major social institutions and the governing value system that unifies them into a hegemonic way of life. That is why crises are always moments of possibility for systemic change—the contradiction between the ruling value system and people’s life-requirements is exposed, opening a shared space for critical, democratic reflection on alternatives to a failing status quo. If democratic mobilization is to be defeated and the crisis resolved on the ruling class’s terms, new ways of running existing institutions must be devised.","PeriodicalId":42624,"journal":{"name":"Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor","volume":"55 1","pages":"119-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74799821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-06DOI: 10.14288/CLOGIC.V22I0.190871
T. V. D. Meer
My entry into the academy was different than many of my colleagues who enter as tenure track faculty, or with dreams of the tenure-track. Like a growing number of faculty, I came to the university as an adjunct. I was not quite aware of what the particular differences between tenure track and non-tenure track even were before I began teaching. Being naive taught me a lot about reality in the academic world. It also exposed the tensions and politics of being an academic and an activist.
{"title":"Fighting to be Different in the Academy","authors":"T. V. D. Meer","doi":"10.14288/CLOGIC.V22I0.190871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CLOGIC.V22I0.190871","url":null,"abstract":"My entry into the academy was different than many of my colleagues who enter as tenure track faculty, or with dreams of the tenure-track. Like a growing number of faculty, I came to the university as an adjunct. I was not quite aware of what the particular differences between tenure track and non-tenure track even were before I began teaching. Being naive taught me a lot about reality in the academic world. It also exposed the tensions and politics of being an academic and an activist.","PeriodicalId":42624,"journal":{"name":"Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor","volume":"494 1","pages":"352-359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75542113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-06DOI: 10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I30.186398
Katie Hogan
The notion of our complicity in an oppressive and unjust system is deep. It’s important to crack this idea open and ask: ‘How can women’s and gender studies scholars (maybe all faculty focused on social justice) do the work they need to do to add to knowledge through teaching and research? How do they do this without compromising their values? How can they do this without contributing to a flawed and unjust system?’ Probably they can’t. The complicity comes with the deal.
{"title":"Complicit: On Being a WGSS Program Director in the Neoliberal University","authors":"Katie Hogan","doi":"10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I30.186398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I30.186398","url":null,"abstract":"The notion of our complicity in an oppressive and unjust system is deep. It’s important to crack this idea open and ask: ‘How can women’s and gender studies scholars (maybe all faculty focused on social justice) do the work they need to do to add to knowledge through teaching and research? How do they do this without compromising their values? How can they do this without contributing to a flawed and unjust system?’ Probably they can’t. The complicity comes with the deal.","PeriodicalId":42624,"journal":{"name":"Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor","volume":"24 1","pages":"323-329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81581962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-06DOI: 10.14288/CLOGIC.V22I0.190862
D. Noble
{"title":"\"I Am Not a Corpse: A Working Praxis for Black Lives Matter\" and Other Poems","authors":"D. Noble","doi":"10.14288/CLOGIC.V22I0.190862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CLOGIC.V22I0.190862","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42624,"journal":{"name":"Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor","volume":"9 1","pages":"251-257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78132628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-06DOI: 10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I30.186402
Kimberly C. Emery
By the time he sat down to reflect on the question in a scholarly way, Dr. Marshall Jones had already grappled with “the role of the faculty in student rebellion” in directly practical and personal terms. As faculty advisor to the University of Florida’s Student Group for Equal Rights in the early 1960s, he had protested, picketed, defied unjust laws, and been arrested more than once. Ultimately, his political commitments cost him his job.
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