{"title":"Coyote and Raven Talk about the Business of Education or How Did Wall Street Bay Street and Sesame Street Get Into the Pockets of Publicly Funded Universities or Vice Versa","authors":"P. Cole, Pat O'Riley","doi":"10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I13.182186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I13.182186","url":null,"abstract":"ama sqit se:kon this is a conversation between two tricksters raven and coyote they were sitting around the verandah in their jeans and pedalpushers eating corncrackers and carrots playing blues riffs on the harmonica and whistling they had been asked to give a talk at a conference at ubc on academic freedom and the corporate university so they were giving it some thought","PeriodicalId":42624,"journal":{"name":"Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90032452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How (and why) Digital Diploma Mills (don't) Work: Academic Freedom, Intellectual Property Rights, Automation and UBC's Master of Educational Technology Program","authors":"S. Petrina","doi":"10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I13.182181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I13.182181","url":null,"abstract":"In the early 21st century, an expansion of educational markets implies automation, social polarization or stratification, and corporatization. These processes, among others, govern initiatives to exploit the economics of the corporate university. Within are three compelling issues facing higher education: academic freedom, intellectual property rights (IPRs), and revenues. In Digital Diploma Mills, David Noble describes two practices underwriting these issues. The first is commercialization via corporate exploitation of research, licensing and the reassignment of IPRs (i.e., copyrights, patents and trade secrets). The second is commodification via the automation of curriculum and instruction (C&I) and the unbundling of IPRs (i.e., copyrights). This article provides detailed insights into the machinations of a digital diploma mill and, like Noble, explains its operation through the political economy of automation. What is an automated course author? How do digital diploma mills work?","PeriodicalId":42624,"journal":{"name":"Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86909940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Another University is Possible: Academic Labor, the Ideology of Scarcity, and the Fight for Workplace Democracy","authors":"A. Dawson","doi":"10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I14.182204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I14.182204","url":null,"abstract":"It is little exaggeration, then, to say that the whole world is watching what happens at institutions such as NYU, the University of California, and CUNY. Insurgent unions such as the GSOC and the PSC have an important role to play in challenging the global jargon of “excellence,” and in replacing prisons and imperial warfare with social justice and the democratization of higher education.","PeriodicalId":42624,"journal":{"name":"Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78399919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Accumulation of Disadvantage: The Role of Educationa Testing in the School Career of Minority Children","authors":"S. Mathison","doi":"10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I10.184646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I10.184646","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the ways standardized testing puts children of color and children living in poverty at a disadvantage. This disadvantage begins early in the school career of a child and repeats itself again and again. Education, when driven by standardized testing, is not the great equalizer it is so often portrayed to be in the mythical world where merit counts most.","PeriodicalId":42624,"journal":{"name":"Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75722927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}