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Angela Mathews | Independent Scholars
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Author Archive for Angela Drummond-Mathews. A Reality Check on the Drive for College Degrees. This article appeared in the Atlantic. Several years ago, but I thought it deserved attention again. Recently, someone wrote an article likening school to a prison. If so, what are we doing in colleges? Professor X takes a sobering look at the reality of college for students and professors. On that first writing assignment. In the Basement of the Ivory Tower. Some Thoughts On Adjuncts and Retention. The Derrida ...
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Adjuncts and Retention | Independent Scholars
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Gracie G makes some great observations at The Unarmed Education Mercenary. What incentive, other than the personal satisfaction of a job well done, does the adjunct have to contribute significantly to a department that has made their disposable status very clear? Why worry about the well-being of a department or school that may or may not ever offer work again? Some Thoughts On Adjuncts and Retention. Responses to “Adjuncts and Retention”. Feed for this Entry. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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The Irregulars | The Consulting Editor
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Editor Proofreader Writer Consultant. A lot of folks are doing a lot of great work on behalf of the academic, alt-academic, and post-academic communities. In many cases, information, solidarity, and activism are much stronger through unofficial channels. Here are just a few in my extended online family:. Campus Resistance Map, Brianne Bolin and CACHE. The Unarmed Education Mercenary. Kelly J. Baker. LC Dean’s Corner. Charles Bivona, NJ Poet. Order of Education (Josh Boldt). Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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nathanielcoliver | Nathaniel C. Oliver
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Nathaniel C. Oliver. Freelance academic/poet-for-hire/verbal hustler/classless teacher. July 2, 2015. He had a beard, and the authority that comes from being a Guest Speaker. He told us, at our little school that had the Rebel as our mascot, a gray-clad god who towered over us in a thirty-story painting on one gym wall, flanked by the two flags we had always witlessly venerated, as children trustingly do. What did he tell us? What did he tell us? And he played his banjo, and he played “Dixie.&#...There w...
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doubt | Nathaniel C. Oliver
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Nathaniel C. Oliver. Freelance academic/poet-for-hire/verbal hustler/classless teacher. March 20, 2015. Not what is said, but what is redacted,. What is lost, what is left to remain. Rotting unused, the surplus of being,. The bare inch scribbled in ordered margins,. The cast-offs, the dog-ends, the what-have-yous,. Repurposed, made new, orphans adopted. And put to work at once, small hands hefting. The litter of some dark pop svengali,. But the lulling refrain. Of so many shekels, falling like rain.
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poetry | Nathaniel C. Oliver
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Nathaniel C. Oliver. Freelance academic/poet-for-hire/verbal hustler/classless teacher. March 20, 2015. Not what is said, but what is redacted,. What is lost, what is left to remain. Rotting unused, the surplus of being,. The bare inch scribbled in ordered margins,. The cast-offs, the dog-ends, the what-have-yous,. Repurposed, made new, orphans adopted. And put to work at once, small hands hefting. The litter of some dark pop svengali,. But the lulling refrain. Of so many shekels, falling like rain.
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#nawd | Nathaniel C. Oliver
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Nathaniel C. Oliver. Freelance academic/poet-for-hire/verbal hustler/classless teacher. February 25, 2015. The Ones Who Walk Away: #NAWD. I read a story, when I was an undergraduate taking a course on the American short story, called “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,”. Written by fantasy/science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin. A Brave New World. 8221; etc. We have all had these thoughts, I am sure. But then, there is the title of the story, “The Ones Who Walk Away.” What of them? Some of Omelas̵...
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Uncategorized | Nathaniel C. Oliver
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Nathaniel C. Oliver. Freelance academic/poet-for-hire/verbal hustler/classless teacher. July 2, 2015. He had a beard, and the authority that comes from being a Guest Speaker. He told us, at our little school that had the Rebel as our mascot, a gray-clad god who towered over us in a thirty-story painting on one gym wall, flanked by the two flags we had always witlessly venerated, as children trustingly do. What did he tell us? What did he tell us? And he played his banjo, and he played “Dixie.&#...There w...
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influence | Nathaniel C. Oliver
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Nathaniel C. Oliver. Freelance academic/poet-for-hire/verbal hustler/classless teacher. March 20, 2015. Not what is said, but what is redacted,. What is lost, what is left to remain. Rotting unused, the surplus of being,. The bare inch scribbled in ordered margins,. The cast-offs, the dog-ends, the what-have-yous,. Repurposed, made new, orphans adopted. And put to work at once, small hands hefting. The litter of some dark pop svengali,. But the lulling refrain. Of so many shekels, falling like rain.
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writing | Nathaniel C. Oliver
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Nathaniel C. Oliver. Freelance academic/poet-for-hire/verbal hustler/classless teacher. March 20, 2015. Not what is said, but what is redacted,. What is lost, what is left to remain. Rotting unused, the surplus of being,. The bare inch scribbled in ordered margins,. The cast-offs, the dog-ends, the what-have-yous,. Repurposed, made new, orphans adopted. And put to work at once, small hands hefting. The litter of some dark pop svengali,. But the lulling refrain. Of so many shekels, falling like rain.
