Paul Haeder, Author

the quality of higher education is only as far as the billionaires will allow it.

Dialing for billionaires’ and non-profit philanthropy outfits’ dirty dirty money. This is the Ivy League, man: Harvard has borne the brunt of business executives’ and politicians’ outrage after the Cambridge, Mass.-based university’s initial statement on the ongoing conflict was criticized for not explicitly condemning Hamas. A later statement did explicitly condemn them.

The university has also been under fire after 30 campus organizations penned a statement on the ongoing conflict that blamed the conflict squarely on Israel. Those groups wrote that “the apartheid regime is the only one to blame.”

Bill Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, called on the university to release the name of all members of the club so that he can blacklist them. Ackman and his wife, Karen Ackman, are both Harvard alumni; in 2014, the couple donated $26 million to support the university.

[Piece of shit telling us lemmings to jump off that cliff?]

Several other business executives, including Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Neman, agreed with Ackman in posts on X.com, formerly known as Twitter.

“I would like to know so I know never to hire these people,” Neman wrote in response to Ackman’s comments on X last week. (source)

Goddamn, the racists all over Substack, in legacy and other whacko media, are going after the Harvard Prez who resigned because of Biden-Level Plagiarism, or was it plain talk about White Supremacist Israel? This is it for the world, fucking insignificant school and overpaid board members, and the outstretched knuckle-dragging hands of the Admin Class, hoping for more of te Continuing Criminal Enterprise Sicarios’ moolah.

Ice Cube?

“No Vaseline,” a diss track off the 1991 album Death Certificate, the rapper took aim at Jerry Heller, N.W.A’s former manager, who is Jewish.

“Get rid of that Devil real simple / Put a bullet in his temple / ’Cause you can’t be the N*gga 4 Life crew / With a white Jew telling you what to do / Pulling woolds with your scams / Now I gotta play Silence of the Lambs,” he rhymed.

On “True to the Game,” he rapped, “‘Nigga go home’ spray-painted on your house / Trying to be white or a Jew / But ask yourself, who are they to be equal to? / Get the hell out / Stop being a Uncle Tom, you little sell-out.”

Cube and several other former members of N.W.A have long claimed that Heller (along with Eazy-E) stiffed them on their songwriting royalties and locked them into oppressive contracts via their Ruthless Records label.

Fucking entertainment. Thespians are infecting all aspects of this transactional Predatory Capitalism, from city counil chambers to used car sales to Harvard Boardrooms to the political class, just all over the fucking land. So all things non-Jew scrutinized hard by the Jews?

In late 6th century Athens (BCE), it was all the rage. Introduced by Thespis, “play-acting” quickly attained widespread popularity among Athenians who, like most people, were looking for diverting forms of entertainment to fill the evening hours. On one such evening the aged patriarch Solon, celebrated lawmaker and civic founder, was persuaded to attend a performance. His reaction?: indignation and an angry rebuke to Thespis, who blithely responded that such “play” was harmless, merely a novel pastime. “No!” Solon retorted angrily (here paraphrasing Plutarch’s account), “It is dangerous. Such a tolerance for pretense and deception will end up infecting all our commerce and civic life.” But Thespis merely shrugged — and, some 2500 years later, we now find ourselves enmeshed in a media-sphere of garrulous, deceitful “actors,” all clamoring for our attention as they exhibit their base arts of “persuasion.” 

Aristotle, in his book on Rhetoric, had warned presciently that the “base” variety of rhetoric seeks to undermine our self-directed judgment in order to manipulate and control our decisions. Much later, in the mid-18th century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau followed Plutarch’s account of Solon by writing an angry polemic against the establishment of a theater in his beloved Geneva. (“Impression-Management” and the “False Self”)

Lupe Fiasco releases his sixth LP, Drogas Light, tomorrow, much attention will be paid to the subtext and themes of his rhymes by those looking for hints of anti-semitic rhetoric.

In mid-December, the rapper shared a single called “N.E.R.D.,” which lit up the music community for this particularly eyebrow-raising line: “Artists getting robbed for their publishing/By dirty Jewish execs who think that it’s alms from the covenant.”

Fiasco hopped back on Twitter to specifically name the Jews in the music business he felt had defrauded him, including former Warner Music CEO Lyor Cohen and the company’s current CEO Craig Kallman.

“Lyon Cohen told me he may not honor the terms of an existing contract unless i signed a contract which changed the terms of the existing one,” he wrote. “Craig Kallman once negotiated a deal in secret which said I agreed to give away 85% of my pub rights to the song Airplanes to his producers.”

“[I]n Harlem…. our … landlords were Jews, and we hated them. We hated them because they were terrible landlords and did not take care of the buildings. The grocery store owner was a Jew… The butcher was a Jew and, yes, we certainly paid more for bad cuts of meat than other New York citizens, and we very often carried insults home along with our meats… and the pawnbroker was a Jew—perhaps we hated him most of all.” — James Baldwin

Stereotypes and racism were definitely prevalent amongst Jews in the entertainment business. “Jewish women vaudevillians at the turn of the century popularized what is now a little-discussed and misunderstood performance venue, known as ‘coon shouting,’ “ writes Pamela Brown Levitt.

“Trying to break into the entertainment business, [Tin Pan Alley entrepreneurs’] aesthetics were circumscribed in a vehemently antiblack and xenophobic milieu. By the mid-1880-s they had formed a tight-knit Tin Pan Alley industry that came to dominate vaudeville and early black musicals … Intended as comedy, coon song ranged from jocular and dismissive to cruel and sadistic … Coon song sheet music and illustrated covers proliferated defamatory images of blacks in barely coded slanderous lyrics. For example, the ‘N’ word and associated inferences were dispatched in words like ‘mammy,’ ‘honey boy,’ ‘pickinniny,’ ‘chocolate,’ ‘watermelon,’ ‘possum,’ and the most prevalent ‘coon.’ ”

Harvard University President Claudine Gay announced her resignation on Tuesday, following  scrutiny of her academic record, including numerous allegations that she plagiarized passages in her published works. Six additional examples of plagiarism were recently discovered by Washington Free Beacon reporter Aaron Sibarium.

These allegations are very serious and have led numerous commentators—including Harvard students—to conclude that she must be held accountable. Even The Harvard Crimson‘s editorial board, writing in support of Gay, nevertheless acknowledged that she had committed plagiarism and that the university’s investigation had been inadequate.

Harvard? Factory of hucksters, liars, grifters, war criminal wannabes, predatory CEOs, lawyers . . . . Capitalism is a lie factory. Poison Ivy League school? The military kill academies? How many liars end up teaching at Harvard, and how many LIARS are matriculated fuckers from that school?

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During Larry Summers’s Harvard presidency, the number of tenured jobs offered to women has fallen from 36% to 13%. Last year (2005), only four of 32 tenured job openings were offered to women.

The DoD riff-raff, the generals, all those Colonel Ollie North types, the endless millions of thieves, manslaughter experts, ambulance chasers, tort lawyers, lawfare criminals, schemers, three-card monty pros? Harvard and Ivy League and Top 100 universities across the land of 4,000 colleges and universities.

Here, the liars club — just scratching the surface! America is snake oil salesmen, house flipping, suckers born every nanosecond, and mass formation.

From CIA Network News, CNN:

Vice President Joe Biden, 1987: During the 1988 Presidential election, the then-presidential candidate was accused of mimicking a speech that British Labour Party Neil Kinnock delivered just four months prior.

Kinnock’s speech included the following lines:

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? [Pointing to his wife in the audience:] Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because all our predecessors were thick?

While Biden said:

I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? [Pointing to his wife in the audience:] Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? Is it because I’m the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest?

The vice president was forced to withdraw from the presidential race after Maureen Dowd of the New York Times exposed his plagiarized speech. Allegations followed that Biden lifted parts of other speeches from Hubert Humphrey, Robert Kennedy, and JFK.

White House Aide Timothy Goeglein, 2008: The senior White House official resigned after he admitted copying large sections of an essay he wrote for a newspaper in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

German Defense Secretary Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg, 2011: Guttenberg resigned amidst a scandal involving alleged plagiarism in his doctoral dissertation. Although he denied the accusations, the University of Bayreuth revoked his doctorate title. Guttenberg had been considered a rising star in Merkel’s government, but his political career expired with his diploma.

The defense secretary received widespread public criticism for borrowing extensively from the Web – and was nicknamed “Baron zu Googleberg,” the “minister for cut-and-paste.”

Hungarian President Pal Schmitt, 2012: Schmitt, a former Olympic fencing champion, wrote his dissertation in 1992 for the University of Physical Education, which is now part of Semmelweis University in Budapest.

In January 2012, the Hungarian HVG weekly reported that a large part of Schmitt’s dissertation was copied, and a university investigation confirmed that more than 200 pages of the 215-page document showed “partial similarity” to other works, or were direct translations.

Senator Rand Paul, 2013: Paul has been the subject of several plagiarism scandals – surrounding both his speeches and his book.

The first was highlighted when MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow pointed out that a speech he made in 2013 was lifted directly from the Wikipedia page of the film “Gattaca”. BuzzFeed also reported that he did the same in another speech, pick pocketing from “Stand and Deliver.”

They went on to report that Paul’s book “Government Bullies” was heavily plagiarized without attribution – highlighting passages stolen from Forbes, the Cato Institute, and the Heritage Foundation.

German Education Minister Annette Schavan, 2013: The University of Dusseldorf stripped Schavan of her Ph.D. after a blogger caught the plagiarism and spent months vigilantly presenting the evidence to the public.

The blog “schavanplag” (for “Schavan” and “plagiarism”) compared passages of Schavan’s 1980 dissertation with sections of written works by other authors – in multiple instances they matched word for word, or nearly. The blog alleges Schavan did not properly source her work and claimed others’ work as her own.

Senator John Walsh, 2014: The Montana Senator was thrown into a plagiarism scandal regarding his master’s thesis for the Army War College. Three quarters of the 20-page document, titled “The Case for Democracy as a Long-Term National Strategy” was found to be plagiarized, the New York Times first reported.

Republican Presidential Candidate Ben Carson, 2015: BuzzFeed News broke the story that Carson had lifted material from a number of books and online sources for his 2012 book “America the Beautiful.” They revealed that several sections of the book were copied from a variety of online articles, a CBS News article, and a website titled SocialismSucks.net.

“I attempted to appropriately cite and acknowledge all sources in America the Beautiful, but inadvertently missed some. I apologize, and I am working with my editors to rectify the situation,” Carson said in a statement his representative, Armstrong Williams, provided to CNN.

Harvard? Shit.

The theological rebellion of Anne Hutchinson and her fellow Antinomians compelled the 1637 General Court to finally fund the “Colledge” that they had founded on paper the previous year.  The school was intended to protect orthodox Puritan theology by educating future ministers in “the New England way.”

However, it must be understood that while Harvard was established for a religious purpose, it was never a “seminary.”  The motive of its founding was theological, but the education provided always included the classical liberal arts.  While approximately 50% of early graduates did enter the ministry, the remainder were entering secular professions. 

But at the same time, the religious education offered to all the students who studied in the “Colledge” would help to establish a religious uniformity in the Colony.  This emphasis on conformity in religious education was designed to counter both the method and content of Mrs. Hutchinson, who had advocated that each individual had direct access to Divine inspiration. 

“God is just as present in the secular as the religious realms of life,” wrote theologian Harvey Cox in his 1965 bestseller “The Secular City.”

“Turn on – find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune in – be reborn,” was the motto of psychologist Timothy Leary who ran the Harvard Psilocybin Project. Although Harvard fired him in 1963 for egging his students onto psychedelics, one guinea pig, Huston Smith, became a towering scholar of religion.

Back in kaleidoscopic Annenberg built in a cruciform structure, the latest addition is the marble bust of W. E. B. Du Bois commissioned in 1993 for the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard in 1895. “I was in Harvard, not of it,” he wrote during the Jim Crow era of segregation. “I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations.”

“The only thing an Ivy League postgrad likes to talk about more than where he went to college is a fellow graduate who, after four years on campus, has turned out to be something of a monster.

To quote PhD economist Richard Wolff.

Karl Marx’s work is never taught. Hardly ever in any kind of systematic way, for an economist. Let me be very personal with you. I have an education here in the United States that makes me a bit of a poster boy for the elite system. I went to Harvard as an undergraduate. Then I went to Stanford University in California for my Master’s degree in Economics and I got my PhD in Economics at Yale University. This is sort of like having an education that is half Oxford, half Cambridge etc, etc. In all of those years, ten years, that I spent in the three arguably best universities in the United States, I was never required to read one word of Karl Marx’s analysis of how a capitalist system works. That’s not an achievement of our system. It’s a pathetic failure of our system.

Henry Heller takes readers from the ideological apparatus of the early Cold War, through the revolts of the 1960s and on to the contemporary malaise of postmodernism, neoliberalism and the so-called ‘knowledge economy’ of academic capitalism. He reveals how American educational institutions have been forced to decide between teaching students to question the dominant order and helping to perpetuate it. The Capitalist University presents a comprehensive overview of a topic which affects millions of students in America and increasingly, across the globe.

The deteriorating situation of the universities has its own internal logic as well. In response to the decline in funding, but also to the prevalence of neoliberal ideology, universities—or rather the presidents, administrators, and boards of trustees who control them—are increasingly moving away from their ostensible mission of serving the public good to that of becoming as far as possible like private enterprises. In doing so, most of the teachers in these universities are being reduced to the status of wage labor, and indeed precarious wage labor. The wages of the non-tenured faculty who now constitute the majority of teachers in higher education are low, they have no job security and receive few benefits. Although salaried and historically enjoying a certain autonomy, tenured faculty are losing the vestiges of their independence as well. Similarly, the influence of students in university affairs—a result of concessions made by administrators during the upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s—has effectively been neutered. These changes reflect a decisive shift of power toward university managers whose numbers and remuneration have expanded prodigiously. The objective of these bureaucrats is to transform universities as much as possible to approximate private and profit-making corporations, regarded as models of efficient organization based on the discipline of the market. Indeed, scores of universities, Phoenix University for example, have been created explicitly as for-profit businesses and currently enroll millions of students.

Modern universities have always had a close relationship with private business, but whereas in the past faculty labor served capital by producing educated managers, highly skilled workers, and new knowledge as a largely free good, strenuous efforts are now underway to transform academic employment into directly productive, i.e., profitable, labor. The knowledge engendered by academic work is accordingly being privatized as a commodity through patenting, licensing, and copyrighting to the immediate benefit of universities and the private businesses to which universities are increasingly linked. Meanwhile, through the imposition of administrative standards laid down in accord with neoliberal principles, faculty are being subjected to unprecedented scrutiny through continuous quantified evaluation of teaching and research in which the ability to generate outside funding has become the ultimate measure of scholarly worth. At the same time, universities have become part of global ranking systems like the Shanghai Index or the Times Higher Education World University Rankings in which their standing in the hierarchy has become all important to their prestige and funding.

Confederacy Of Dunces — The Tyranny Of Compulsory Schooling John Taylor Gatto: Teacher training in Prussia was founded on three premises, which the United States subsequently borrowed. The first of these is that the state is sovereign, the only true parent of children. Its corollary is that biological parents are the enemies of their offspring. When Germany’s Froebel invented Kindergarten, it was not a garden for children he had in mind but a garden of children, in which state-appointed teachers were the gardeners of the children. Kindergarten is meant to protect children from their own mothers.

The second premise of Prussian schooling is that intellectual training is not the purpose of state schooling — obedience and subordination are. In fact, intellectual training will invariably subvert obedience unless it is rigidly controlled and doled out as a reward for obedience. If the will could be broken all else would follow. Keep in mind that will-breaking was the central logic of child-rearing among our own Puritan colonists, and you will see the natural affinity that exists between Prussian seeds and Puritan soil — from which agriculture our compulsory schooling law springs. The best-known device to break the will of the young, practiced for centuries among English and German upper classes, was the separation of parent and child at an early age. Here now was an institution backed by the police power of the state to guarantee that separation. But it was not enough to compel obedience by intimidation. The child must be brought to love its synthetic parent. When George Orwell’s protagonist in 1984 realizes that he loves Big Brother after betraying his lover to the state, we have a dramatic embodiment of the sexual destination of Prussian-type schooling; it creates a willingness to sell out your own family, friends, culture, and religion for your new lover, the state. Twelve years of arbitrary punishment and reward in the confinement of a classroom is ample time to condition any child to believe that he who wields red-pen-power is the true parent, and they who control the buzzers must be gods.

The third premise of Prussian training is that the schoolroom and the workplace shall be dumbed down into simplified fragments that anyone, however dull, can memorize and operate. This solves the historical dilemma of leadership: a disobedient work force could be replaced quickly, without damage to production, if the workers required only habit, not mind, to function properly. This strategy paid off recently during the national strike of air-traffic controllers, when the entire force of these supposed “experts” was replaced overnight by management personnel and hastily trained fill-ins. There was no increase in accidents across the system! If anyone can do any particular job there’s no reason to pay them very much except to guarantee employee loyalty and dependency — a form of love which bad parents often extort from their young in the same way.

Harvard? The great theological scholar Dietrich Bonhoeffer raised this issue of the new dumbness in his brilliant analysis of Nazism, in which he sought to comprehend how the best-schooled nation in the world, Germany, could fall under its sway. He concluded that Nazism could be understood only as the psychological product of good schooling. The sheer weight of received ideas, pre-thought thoughts, was so overwhelming that individuals gave up trying to assess things for themselves. Why struggle to invent a map of the world or of the human conscience when schools and media offer thousands of ready-made maps, pre-thought thoughts?

As our most trusted universities continue to privatize large swaths of their academic programs, their fundamental nature will be changed in ways that are hard to reverse. The race for profits will grow more heated, and the social goal of higher education will seem even more like an abstraction. Even the partnerships that are undertaken with noble intentions never truly put the student first. (source)

In “No College Kid Needs a Water Park to Study,” James V. Koch writes:

In a competition to woo students, public universities are increasingly offering lavish amenities that have nothing to do with education.

The latest trend is lazy rivers, which have been installed at several big institutions, including the Universities of Alabama, Iowa and Missouri. Last year, Louisiana State University topped them all with a 536-foot-long “leisure” river in the shape of the letters “LSU,” part of an $85 million renovation and expansion of its gym. It was L.S.U. students who footed the bill.

At a time when college has never been more expensive, this is the last thing students should be paying for. According to the College Board, tuition and fees at public four-year institutions grew more than 60 percent over the past 10 years. State budgets for higher education have been slashed, and students have to make up the difference.

In the case of L.S.U., the lazy river was financed entirely by student fees, an addendum to their annual tuition. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, over the past five years, those fees increased by 60 percent, nearly triple the amount L.S.U. students paid in 2000.

Tuition and fee hikes at public universities don’t come out of nowhere. Each has to be approved by a school’s governing board, whose trustees are typically appointed by the governor. Ensuring affordable, quality education is an essential part of trustees’ responsibility, but unfortunately often not part of their practice.

Trustees of public universities are stewards of a public trust that rests nobly on the notion that an enlightened citizenry is vital to a democratic society. They have a fiduciary duty to represent the citizens and taxpayers who support public institutions of higher education, as well as the students who attend them. But even though the best interests of students and taxpayers revolve around college access, affordability and graduation outcomes, too often presidents and boards are more focused on the rankings, reputation and popularity of the institution itself.

At a time when college has never been more expensive, this is the last thing students should be paying for. According to the College Board, tuition and fees at public four-year institutions grew more than 60 percent over the past 10 years. State budgets for higher education have been slashed, and students have to make up the difference.

Old piece in Dissident Voice, which by the way doesn’t publish me anymore.

Bulldozing Ourselves into Perpetual Growth — Secrets of the Admin Class

by Paul Haeder / May 26th, 2014

Oh, the elite, or the admin class, or the middling white managerial class, how they are confounding it all, and nary a real activist sees that we are cooked until we wipe them away from positions of power.

I appreciate all the work of environmentalists, for sure, and on this Memorial Day, how does that fit into the scheme of green things? How does it fit when we have liquid gas coming to Coos Bay, Oregon, or Vancouver, WA. How does it all mix when we all have given the valley of death and the valley of hope to the legal ones, the barristers, the second, third and first-tier lawyering class, these people like Obama, or worse, who have corralled people into a continual stream of consumption, endless growth, sprawl and debt.

Faculty Unionizing,

Students Screwed to a Higher Degree at the Tier One Colleges that Pay Presidents Mas y Mas/

Hunger Strikes, Hunger Games/

Five Easy Pieces of Advice from Leaders in Education Who Can’t and Will Never Teach!

See how that works. Simple microcosmic illustration, here, in small-time Vancouver, Clark College, yet, whew, look at it, this is emblematic of our times, the tyranny of the Admin Class, Dean-lets, the Boards of Education, Regents, whatever you want to call the most OUT OF TOUCH humans on earth – the antithesis of education, scholarship, rhetoric, critical thinking, education. These people are running faculty into their graves. Sending students packing into debt hell, into neutered hell, into the end times of thinking, or anything reliable now in the classroom.

Here, in Vancouver and environs, we have a state school, Clark Community College, though they cut the Community from the title, for obvious reasons of pure marketing crap, as if college means more to a human, to the paper the AA degree or now four-year degree is printed on?

Killing community from both the name of the college, and the point of the education. The point of communities – oh, farms, hospitals, schools, small businesses, culture, hell, even small churches. Recreation, hell, safety and I suppose what the entire game is supposed to be – survival, fairness, life, retraction against the tyrannical class.

I’ve been writing about precarious workers, faculty, the entire lie of working us, the majority, to the bone, firing us with a few flippant student evaluations, the rotten tenured class and department heads who have euthanized history, activism, dignity and the tools to fight the very villains who call themselves provosts and HR heads, and development directors, marketing mavens, gifts and giving creeps.

So, the debt is insurmountable, and the job market rigged by the Kochs, Bloombergs, Gates, HPs, the entire lot of them, those retailers, and the few corporations that are still in business in this country as makers or builders of things. This story is about the fugue leaders, as in the presidents of colleges that throw themselves the most money who are proud to say their colleges are the ones with the most student debt. What heroes, and they get money thrown at them, conferences tailored to their misanthropy, and they have hundreds under them, each, on their privatizing team, all those yes men, and mostly yes women, now. That price of feminism, more people of both genders who have sold us all out. They talk an alternative language, and they are a species of their own. Try it out sometime, attending a meeting they hold, or some mumbo-jumbo BS talk they have on “leadership” (sic-sic).

So, Clark College (minus-COMMUNITY), like the universities and and colleges around this country, and in other countries, hire on scabs, hire on us, the precarious, the part-time and the nontenured. They have been hiring us on in droves since the 1970s, and we are at a point where colleges are run by Wannabe One Percenters, these MBA and institutional leadership creeps, and the bulk of the faculty are in the cross hairs of American exceptionalism, the poverty strewn world of the elites and their little Eichmanns, keeping clocks running, [urchasing useless junk like software spewing retrograde crap in our schools, all for the love of keeping students at bay and holding their intellect like Playdough.

So, the colleges here and in all 50 states hire on people as temps, freeway fliers, and that commitment to them is as superficial as the commitment made by our politicians and our leaders. We teach when enrollments go up, and we are sacked a quarter or more later. So, Clark College, the big main campus, and entire multi-campus unit, is in a $3 million shortfall, is sacking part-timers, you know, last to hire first to fire mentality, by the leadership. This former military creep, head of the school, his big bucks and his minions following him, and the entire joke, since he is anti-intellectual, anti-learning, but a whore to the dollar.

Cutting teachers, cutting the good classes, like humanities, film studies, history, drama, lit., you name it, these ex-Colonels who we throw money at, they cut what disturbs them, and, alas, while these emails hit our Outlook boxes hourly, about “don’t count on summer jobs, don’t count on anything in the Fall, but stay tuned, and just hang on, and, well, we will be contacting you if anything changes,”we get emails about millions of dollars to buy land from some private guy who “donated” $3.1 million after he got in his pocked the money for the same land. You know, a fire sale, from $9.1 million for 60 acres down to $6 million in his pocket.

This is the deal: the school is in massive cutting, massive financial straits, but, heck, some benefactor from Holland, some immigrant as the college PR folk said, gave the school some money, or was it land, to build a satellite campus, a few miles north, in a rural scape.

Read closely, and see that economic unlimited growth mentioned, and economists, and county economic development folk. Read this, and weep, because these people are in business to make money, to sell land, to plow, bulldoze, build, outfit, landscape and service with TAX PAYER money. The end result, a bricks and mortar satellite facility with more precarious workers — faculty — and more numb-nuts ideas from the women and men of the Admin Managerial Deanlet CEO class.

Clark College Foundation has finalized the purchase of nearly 60 acres through a generous $3.1 million gift from the Boschma Family LLC. Additionally, the foundation will pay $6 million for the land. The acreage is located in Ridgefield on the east side of North 65 Avenue, north of Pioneer Street and northeast of the Interstate 5 and Pioneer Street interchange.

The leadership gift from the Boschma family was key in being able to move forward on this project.  In making the more than $3.1 million gift, Hank and Bernice Boschma said they were excited to be a part of expanding educational opportunities for students in the region, including first generation and immigrant students.

You’ll be interested to know that the Boschma family’s introduction to Clark College was when Hank and Bernice took a citizenship course in preparation for the national exam after emigrating from Holland. One of their daughters also attended Clark.

The timing of this is good for the campus and good for the community we serve.  In April, the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges prioritized building projects for the upcoming biennium.  According to that prioritization, the North County Campus building will receive design funding in the 2017-2019 budget, and likely receive construction funding in the 2019-2021 budget.

The gift and acquisition represent a long-term visionary chapter for the growth anticipated at Clark College. The college’s 2007 Facilities Master Plan identified North County as a growth area based on projections from regional economists, and the most recent update of the Facilities Master Plan reinforced the need for a facility in this part of our service area.

Can you believe the audacity of these managerial class losers? Planning to build another campus while deciding to kill jobs and, get this, adding more fees on to the already struggling students – $2 per credit. Big plans, these ex-colonels and MBAs and Institutional Management PhDs have for us all. You know what I have written about if you have kept up with my gig here at DV – these simpletons, running the show, the rotten rats, who fee and levy and tax and fine and surtax and poll tax and user fee and gouge us — faculty, community members and especially the students – in an ever-living hell of death by a million pennies just to breathe AIR.

So, that little issue of climate change, sprawl, endless traffic, greenspaces gobbled up by the people that have to come, if they build the satellite campus, which they will, oh, heck, how do we then stop all the energy waste, energy flow, with that sort of mentality?  Can you imagine what this says about the entire shooting match? About fighting for a world that HAS to plan for disasterous Climate Change? Do these rotten over-paid whores to capital CARE? What’s their 10- and 20-year plan? You know the answer — endless trips to Costco, retirement, golf, rollerblading, Winabego-ing into their hells. How does building another campus node do a thing to mitigate that issue of roads, single occupancy vehicle trips, the entire stupidity of campuses that are 50 to 60 percent under-utilzed? Then the matter of what great courses will be studied? What will this campus out in rural-scape be? Another degree in fabrication of robot parts? Boeing and General Dynamics designed curricula? How will they be taught? What sort of teachers will be the material deliverers? How much power will be taken away from faculty and moved to the Institutional Leadership liars and the admin class and their cronies and the business elite who are there with fat hands at the taxpayer funding trough?

Do you have the answer yet, or do you need to read some of my PAST pieces, all satire and sane in one fell swoop?

Fat-jowl presidents, one after another, in their CEO class of community killing warriors, heralding this accomplishment, a new campus soon, in the middle of fields of Johnson grass, strawberries, huge secluded and lock-gate homes, the castle is my home groupies, sort of interestingly evangelical types in the middle of cow fields and tree farms. You know, the society of whites who want nothing to do with riffraff, nothing to do with the masses. Two acres, private jungle gym, alpacas for pets, triple SUV garage, a kitchen big enough for ten Cambodian families to live in. I know these people, as I drive on my bicycle, as each month I find the side mirrors of their Lexus SUVs and BMWs get closer and closer to my elbows, back, rear tire.

So, I wonder, how serious we all are in this game of stripping us of our power as community builders, in this battle against the money changers, the privatizers, those people who are the cogs and gears in the systems of the Monsantos, General Dynanics, Bayers, University of Phoenixes, CocaColas, that great morass that is the MADAPE complex that at this point relies on compliants and takers and fearful ones, even those of us in the 80 percent class. MADAPE – MediaAcademicDefenseAgriculturePrisonEnergy COMPLEX.

These people, presidents, are not wholly respected behind their backs, but that is the crime is it not, this mealy-mouthed society of people afraid to take these people head on, and in mass. Collectively.

So, below, quit a list of items tied to adjunct faculty action, inaction, exploitation, movement, unionism, and our culture of voyerism looking at all of our plights with frog necks and bug-eyes.

CCSF STRUGGLE UPDATES

1. Assembly member Tom Ammiano calls for more time for CCSf and a return to elected Board
2. SF Chronicle editorial “Give CCSF Time to Succeed”
3. No break in fight to save CCSF
4. Nation blog on fight to save SF’s public college

5. Latest updates from Marty Hittelman, author of “ACCJC gone wild” (college accreditors)

We write in solidarity with homeless adjunct faculty member Mary-Faith  Cerasoli, who is currently in the seventh day of a desperate and determined hunger strike.

Mary-Faith Cerasoli’s experience exemplifies the impact of a broken system of academic employment on more than one million adjunct faculty and their students. Mary-Faith speaks four languages, has a master’s degree from Middlebury College, and previously taught Advanced Placement languages in the New York City public schools. She has been an adjunct professor since 2011. She teaches five classes a semester; her annual income is $22,000 per year. She has also been homeless since 2011. Mary-Faith has a life-threatening thyroid disease; until this week, she was denied the Medicaid coverage that would have enabled her to get consistent, life-sustaining treatment.

Mary-Faith has tried everything one person can try to mitigate her plight.  She has appealed to college administrators and the New York City Board of  Education. She has contacted legislators and the governor, written letters  and made phone calls, protested at the New York Department of Education in Albany, and exposed the circumstances of her life to public inspection-and  the inspection of her students-through appeals to the media.

Mary-Faith has done everything professional middle-class people are taught  to do to redress injustice. None of it has worked. She is now engaged in a  hunger strike that dramatizes the absurdity and unfairness of her  unconscionable marginalization.

We affirm the right of every individual, acting in accordance with the  leadings of his or her own conscience, to engage in nonviolent protest like  Mary-Faith’s. This broken system must be ended and replaced with one that is sustainable-and sustaining of both the new faculty majority and the students  and parents who pay such a heavy price for higher education. To that end,  our actions must be taken not only individually, but in large numbers and  coordinated ways, and we commit ourselves-as individuals and in our  organizations-to continue our work towards those outcomes.

Mary-Faith’s protest energizes us in our work for a sustainable system of academic employment. We hope that it also galvanizes others in the movement  of adjunct faculty and their allies-in and out of unions-who are currently  building movements and organizations of the more than one million adjunct faculty members in the United States.

A higher ground is within our reach; we have to unite and fight together to get there.

UPDATES IN BRIEF AND LINKS

1. The plight of the non-renewed.
2. Fastfood workers strikes across the nation and solidarity actions in world.
3. Martin Goldstein has written a favorable book review of Keith Hoeller’s Equality for Contingent Faculty that appears on page 5 of the Spring 2014 issue of the California Communty College Journal.  It’s viewable at CPFA.

4. Northeastern U (Boston, MA) adjuncts vote for union
and elsewhere in US with SEIU:

More than 21,000 strong.

That’s the number of adjunct and part-time faculty who’ve formed unions under the SEIU/Adjunct Action umbrella, after two big wins this week for adjunct faculty at Northeastern University in Boston and Mills College in Oakland, CA who voted to form unions.

“Winning our union election shows what you can do when you work together and have the support of your local community,” said Anne Fleche, an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern who teaches film. “I’m so glad that our success today may help empower other workers, including adjunct faculty like ourselves, to change working and learning conditions in higher education.”

Northeastern adjuncts have formed the largest part-time faculty union in Boston, where approximately 2,000 adjunct faculty at Tufts University, Lesley University, and Northeastern are now united as part of the metro organizing strategy.

The victories yesterday are just the start of what will be an exciting summer for adjuncts. Part-time faculty at dozens of schools are working to unite with their colleagues in SEIU, and many are scheduled to vote soon or have filed for union elections, including adjuncts at the University of the District of Columbia, the San Francisco Art Institute in the Bay Area, Laguna College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, Seattle University, Marist College in New York State and Hamline University and Macalester College in Minnesota.

Share the news of the victories and get more people onboard! Click here to share a Facebook photo.

We’ll keep you apprised of news throughout the summer, from organizing updates to trainings and policy. Share your thoughts on Twitter and Facebook about these exciting developments using the hashtag #AdjunctAction.

Best, Malini Cadambi Daniel
Director, Higher Education Campaign, Adjunct Action

© Adjunct Action
Our mailing address is:
1800 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036

5. FYI – a majority of [full-time, over 50%]  Non-Tenure Track Faculty at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have filed for a union.

6. Progressives win union elections in MA and LA, lose closely in Seattle
and In These Times once and twice.

7. Mary Faith ends fast when Governor’s office promises meeting
9. Art schools unionize
10. Think being an adjunct professor is hard? Try being a Black adjunct professor
11. Marc Bousquet on MLA executive salaries, adjunct and grads. Also see comments.
12. Report of fast food strikes in US and internationally.

13. Adjunct World comics

14. Student debt and number of low wage faculty rising fastest at state universities with highest paid presidents [surprise]

The One Percent at State U

New report finds that student debt and low-wage faculty labor are rising faster at state universities with the highest-paid presidents

Washington, D.C. — An Institute for Policy Studies report featured in the New York Times today finds student debt and low-wage faculty labor are rising faster at state universities with the highest-paid presidents.

‘The One Percent at State U’ examines the 25 state universities that paid out the most in executive compensation from 2005 to 2012.Executive pay at these schools reached an average of nearly $1 million by 2012 while student debt and low-wage faculty rose much faster than national averages.

“The high executive pay obviously isn’t the direct cause of higher student debt, or cuts in labor spending,” co-author Dr. Marjorie Wood told the New York Times. “But if you think about it in terms of the allocation of resources, it does seem to be the tip of a very large iceberg, with universities that have top-heavy executive spending also having more adjuncts, more tuition increases and more administrative spending.”

Report link: **
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KEY FINDINGS:

At the 25 state universities with the highest-paid presidents:

• average executive pay rose to nearly $1 million by 2012–increasing more than twice as fast as the national average at peer institutions.
• student debt is rising faster than at state universities as a whole.
• spending on administration outstripped scholarship spending by more than 2 to 1.
• part-time adjunct increased more than twice as fast as the national average at all universities.
• permanent faculty declined dramatically, making up less than half of all faculty by 2012.

The report ranks the worst offenders across all categories: excessive executive pay, rising student debt, inflated administrative expenditures, and increases in low-wage and temporary faculty labor. The top 5 worst offenders across the board were:

1. Ohio State University

2. Penn State

3. University of Minnesota

4. University of Michigan

5. University of Washington

Ahh, the Liars’ Club, USA Presstitutes, AKA MSM: Main Scum Media. Covering for Biden’s Genocide. This is the fucking shell of a “man.”

MY MAN.

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