Re: [Pen-l] 'Tenured radical' tries to revive professors group

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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