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 October 2005
Reclaiming the Ivory
Tower: Organizing
Adjuncts to Change Higher Education by Joe Berry
Reclaiming the Ivory
Tower is the first organizing handbook for contingent faculty—the
thousands of non-tenure track college teachers who love their work but hate
their jobs. It examines the situation of adjunct professors in U.S. higher
education today and puts forward an agenda around which they can mobilize to
transform their jobs—and their institutions. In this context,
Reclaiming the Ivory Tower also provides a guidepost for all those
concerned about higher education: tenure track faculty, students, graduate
employees, parents, other campus workers, and anyone interested in why a new
labor movement has grown up on campuses across the United States and
Canada.
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 Digital Diploma Mills:
The Automation of Higher
Education by David F. Noble
Here is the first
book-length analysis of the meaning of the Internet for the future of higher
education. David Noble overcomes sterile debates about whether new digital
technologies are in themselves a benefit or liability by showing how their use
in education have reshaped the role of the intellectual and transformed
relations between faculty, management and corporations. His analysis shows how
university teachers are losing control over what they teach, how they teach,
and for what purpose. It also shows how erosion of their intellectual property
rights makes academic employment ever less secure. Written from the frontlines
of the battle for higher education, Digital Diploma Mills demonstrates
that the online university is as much a threat to higher education as an
opportunity.
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 The Education of Black People:
Ten Critiques, 1906
– 1960, New Edition by W.E.B. Du Bois edited by Herbert Aptheker
These ten essays cover
half a century during which the social, political, and technological
transformations were unparalleled by any in recorded history. And while Du Bois
reflects these changes, certain constants persist: a demand for excellence,
sacrifice, and a life of service; and an insistence that while such a life will
bring hardships and temptations, it will also bring fulfillment. In Du Bois's
view, only with such a life will one truly live. In this affirmation, there
runs a particular feeling that the history of African Americans has profoundly
influenced their ideas about service, of compassion, of justice.
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Teach Me!:
Kids Will Learn When
Oppression is the Lesson by Murray Levin
“With disarming honesty, Murray
Levin shares what he learned about his students, as well as what they managed
to teach him. These young people are a wonder, sometimes inchoate, often
sharply insightful and gloriously poetic. Levin is a wonder, too, because he
found within himself the warmth, imagination, and intelligence to figure out
how to speak to them.”—Frances Fox Piven
“Murray Levin starts with a
brilliant idea—to probe the political and social thought of
African-American and Latino teenagers who are not supposed to have such
thoughts—and fulfills it. The result is totally compelling, an education
for the reader. Teach Me! is an original.”—Howard
Zinn
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