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Inequality and Organizations: Finally Someone Speaking My Language!
I have talked here before about how shocked I am that org theory so rarely engages ideas of inequality. I mean, we even call structural racism institutional racism. The word institutional is right there! Why so little theorizing about how institutions reproduce inequality or how they can be disrupted to, in turn, disrupt inequality? I’mRead More “Inequality and Organizations: Finally Someone Speaking My Language!”
My Latest at UVenus: Risk and Ethics of Public Scholarship
I’ve been asked frequently enough about my public work to know that there is a great deal of fear out there. People pull me aside at talks. They send me private messages on twitter. They email me from non .edu email addresses. I’ve written about that fear here before as it pertains to women. IRead More “My Latest at UVenus: Risk and Ethics of Public Scholarship”
New Fancy Report On Job Outcomes for College Grads
A new report, summarized in a higher education paper, from McKinsey & Company on job outcomes for college graduates says that no one is doing a good job of slotting qualified workers into the labor market. My favorite part is this: Colleges aren’t entirely to blame, she said, for the fact that companies cannot findRead More “New Fancy Report On Job Outcomes for College Grads”
Marxism, Student Loan Debt, and Alienation of Labor
One of the ideas I’ve been working out on Twitter is a conflict analysis of student loan debt. I’m not sure when the idea originated but I distinctly remember asking if anyone could recommend a Marxist take on student loans and their pacifying effect on workers. Actually, it may have started with a conversation withRead More “Marxism, Student Loan Debt, and Alienation of Labor”
Power in the Classroom
I am not sure I say it often enough because research is, as a doctoral student, my number one job but I love teaching. I hate grading but I could teach all day long if my voice would hold up. I actually do not know that I could conduct research were I not teaching. TheRead More “Power in the Classroom”
Raging Against The Machine
It has taken me a little time to grasp the different writing conventions of academe. Writing for a conference presentation is not like writing for publication which can be totally different than writing for OpEds. I don’t have it mastered but I think I have determined that as much as academe is about scholarship itRead More “Raging Against The Machine”
Redux: If The Private Sector Wants a Perfect Employee, It Should Train One
The NY Times has a great article today, “Skills Don’t Pay the Bills” by Adam Davidson. It is a relief for me. Sometimes I feel like I’m screaming into the wind when I categorically refute the idea that more degrees equal more and better jobs. The article reminded me of a similar piece I bloggedRead More “Redux: If The Private Sector Wants a Perfect Employee, It Should Train One”
The Problem With For-Profits? The Education Assembly Line
My latest, co-written with the estimable Sara Goldrick-Rab, is hot off the presses at Contexts! It’s right on time with my Facing Race talk. There was some talk there that for-profits are on the decline after a University of Phoenix announced that they are closing almost half of their physical campuses. I would argue thatRead More “The Problem With For-Profits? The Education Assembly Line”
Mo’ Degrees, Mo’ Problems at Facing Race 2012
I am really honored that Julianne Hing invited me to speak about higher education, race, gender, and inequality at the Applied Research Center’s 2012 Facing Race conference. Not only did it afford me an opportunity to meet dozens of my twitter peeps but it reminded me that my work does not exist in a vacuum.Read More “Mo’ Degrees, Mo’ Problems at Facing Race 2012”