The Working-class and Poverty-class academics group provides support and mentoring on the challenges and confusions we face in our pursuits of higher education.
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"Why do people from elite backgrounds dominate academia? A separate analysis suggests a simple answer: When many of a job’s rewards are non-monetary, that job tends to be done by people for whom cash is not a concern." washingtonpost.com/business/…
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Mine is: Conditions in the Knowledge Factory: Working-Class Faculty Perceptions of the Academic Work Environment
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Who Wants to Be Rich? Working-Class People Would Like Their Share workingclassstudies.wordpres…
Free e-book from @UChicagoPress 'Time for Frankie Coolin' tells the story of a plasterer turned landlord in Chicago who buys abandoned buildings and makes them just habitable enough.
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I like this pull quote: ‘You Can Come From the Working Class and Become the Very Best.’ UMBC's Freeman Hrabowski reflects on his presidency insidehighered.com/news/2021…
Interesting analysis of intersections with working-class folks...
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This looks like a case for @lportwoodstacer
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The new release of @PaTHES_Society Journal PTHE is out: Volume 3, No. 2 of Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education. Here a preview of one of its articles. Read more at peterlang.com/view/journals/…
What are the research and instructional impacts of 11 books of essays by working-class academics? Are the politics of omission involved? Article in the latest issue of the J of Working-Class Studies doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v6i1.6… bit.ly/3fGUH6n
Solidarity doesn't come easily to many middle-class professors. For faculty from working-class backgrounds, solidarity is often part of our history. @WCPCA
"Solidarity does not come easily to professors: the incommensurability of different forms of academic work and its often-solitary character frequently undermine collective efforts," Michael Behrent writes. But has the time for an academic populism come? bit.ly/3bPUNps
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Love to read about higher ed? aaup.org/news/academe-book-r…
ALT Academe Book Review Editor Sought: The AAUP seeks a book review editor for Academe, its quarterly magazine. The book review editor’s primary responsibilities include identifying books for review and soliciting and editing reviews. The ideal candidate will be an AAUP member with a broad knowledge of contemporary issues in higher education, familiarity with AAUP policies, and good editorial judgment. Learn more about this volunteer position at https://www.aaup.org/
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Reviewing @JHUPress’s Lean Semesters: How Higher Education Reproduces Inequity by @m_sekile for #Academe, @Coloradolark writes that Nzinga urges us to seek justice retroactively. bit.ly/2Oq8DqJ
Interesting new paper about academic social class; 'The closed academy? Guild power and academic social class.' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
"we would like to hear from sociologists and others exploring social class in a range of contexts... and to hear about the ways in which class analysis is being used to reveal material and symbolic divisions and solidarities. Write for us thesociologicalreview.com/bl…
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Book Review: Experiences of Academics from a Working-Class Heritage by Carole Binns
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I think this is occurring at UA Little Rock and is viewed by all as positive.
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I have a joke about working-class and poverty-class academics, but I don't want to appear prolier than thou.
This double-identity view has important implications for scholars of working-class studies.
"My double-identity positioned me to serve as an interpreter between the two, a bridge to help them hear and understand one another"
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Yes, often referred to as "genteel poverty."
Nothing undermines decent ideas like half-baked statistics & a lack of fact-checking. The majority of college faculty live in poverty, far from the six figure salaries stated here businessinsider.com/scott-ga…