Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
hello, guys, it IS a business -- but that doesn't mean that it's just like that bizarre fantasy of A Business or of The Business World that you, who have never really worked there, have in your head.
From what I have seen, it is a step beneath the business world. When I was a subcontractor at Goldman-Sachs, I was invited to become a full-time employee on the strength of my technical expertise. In all these fucked up community colleges and state universities, that invitation is never extended. Also, from what I am reading in Marc Bousquet's "How the University Works", the adjuncts tend to be less male and less white than the tenured people so you have a caste type thing going on. Meanwhile, the quality of education delivered by adjuncts is compromised by a number of factors thus making higher education in the U.S. even more degraded than it would be if the faculty was full-time. Capitalism really has a way of undermining its own long-term prospects through these kinds of cost-cutting measures.
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