AND a great article about how the problems that I describe in my blog about for-profit colleges can apply to non-profit institutions too. This student is, unfortunately, mistaking NYU President John Sexton for a human being with feelings, but more importantly, this case illustrates why this student should have attended any of the very goodContinue reading “One Student’s Heartbreaking Letter Sums Up What’s Wrong With America’s Colleges – Mic”
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The Sociopathology of Everyday Business
I’m posting a link here to my 2010 review of The University Against Itself for Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labor. The reviewed anthology is a collection of essays about the failed 2005-06 NYU graduate student workers’ strike and what participants learned from it. The events surrounding this strike form something like a case study for manyContinue reading “The Sociopathology of Everyday Business”