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If you want to understand the material reality of contemporary academic labor, skip the glossy recruitment brochures featuring tweed jackets and ivy-covered stone arches. Walk out to the far edge of the commuter parking lot at your local community college around 9:45 PM on a Tuesday. Look for the 2011 Honda Civic with peeling clear…
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If you wanted to script the ultimate inspirational blockbuster for modern higher education, you could not have written a more cinematic pitch than the rise of Jason Arday. In 2023, the University of Cambridge announced with massive global fanfare that it had appointed Arday as its Professor of the Sociology of Education. At just 37…
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If you want to witness true, cinematic panic, don’t look at horror movies. Look at the public comment section of a federal regulatory docket when university presidents realize their golden moat has a leak. This week, the American Council on Education (ACE)—flanked by a coalition of 45 major higher education lobbying associations—submitted a scathing set…
