{"id":2604,"date":"2012-08-16T14:06:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T20:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:50:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:50:34","slug":"how-the-american-university-was-killed-in-five-easy-steps-the-homeless-adjunct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/08\/16\/how-the-american-university-was-killed-in-five-easy-steps-the-homeless-adjunct\/","title":{"rendered":"How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps | The Homeless Adjunct"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/junctrebellion.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/12\/how-the-american-university-was-killed-in-five-easy-steps\/\">How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps | The Homeless Adjunct<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like the first commenter says, a must read.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the spoiler:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>defund public higher education.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>deprofessionalize and impoverish the professors\u00a0<\/strong>(and continue to create a surplus of underemployed and unemployed Ph.D.s)<\/li>\n<li><strong>move in a managerial\/administrative class who take over governance of the university. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>move in corporate culture and corporate money <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Destroy the Students <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Congratulations America &#8211; you have taken one of the main things that made you strong and good, and wrecked it.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-2604'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(2604);\" title='Like' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'><b>2<\/b> people like this post.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(2604);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(2604);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps | The Homeless Adjunct. 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Here&#8217;s the spoiler: defund public higher education. deprofessionalize and impoverish the professors\u00a0(and continue to create a surplus of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/08\/16\/how-the-american-university-was-killed-in-five-easy-steps-the-homeless-adjunct\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,14,24],"tags":[388,44],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-teaching-learning","tag-academia","tag-american-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-G0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3175,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/11\/16\/the-gamification-of-everything\/","url_meta":{"origin":2604,"position":0},"title":"The Gamification of Everything","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"November 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I really hate that term. 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It's also why I am happy to teach courses at Mount Royal University - they do very little of this, which makes for an entirely different working\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3253,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/01\/05\/where-ive-been-online-jan-5-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":2604,"position":2},"title":"Where I&#8217;ve Been Online (Jan 5 2013)","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"January 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"About This Project | Adjunct Project About This Project Two-thirds of the faculty standing in front of college classrooms each day are off the tenure track. But getting information about the salaries of this army of adjuncts and the campus working conditions for them has proven nearly impossible. 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