Modern Universities: stories of work & resistance

Project account for Under pressure: stories of work in, and resistance to, the neoliberal University. Team - @animalsociology @zoei_sutton.

[Modern Universities: stories of work & resistance @ModernUniversi1]

We're collecting stories about work in, and resistance to, the modern neoliberal university. Please feel free to RT and/or consider contributing. https://t.co/eRS3w8WINN

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Deliberately misleading. This isn't a 'painful time with finances', it's the decimation of the sector.

[Goldsmiths UCU @GoldsmithsUCU]

❗️No @eveningstandard Goldsmiths management are not having a "painful time". They're not the ones being sacked after a sham consultation & a flawed "scoring" process where years of experience was ignored.

If you want to stop the pain, stop the job cuts!

https://t.co/nlQvg5Zu7g

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And any - minimal - voice we do have is often aggressively silenced and/or we self censor due to fear of loss of work.

[Hull University UCU @hulluniucu]

Dear @Jacqui_Smith1, the University of Hull is on it's 3rd redundancy cycle (one every time we change VCs). They spend, they trigger debt covenants, they make us redundant. Academics doing teaching and research have no control over these people.

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Yes. And with the -creep of everything (admin creep, IT creep etc) most of us are barely managing the basics.

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Universities across the UK are in crisis. Our members hard work and research has laid that bare.

We need the government to intervene.

Front page of tomorrow’s Sunday Times.

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Two new posts from our project and 'living wall' of stories about life in the modern university system.

[Sol Gamsu @SolGamsu]

“little use to democratise universities if apologists of capitalism are left in the professorships. We have to remember that class struggle wages at least as fiercely in education as in industry/politics. It would be useless to change the dinner service without a change of menu.”

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@ronald_hartz Really useful, thanks.

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This might be of interest to some followers of this account too. It's not limited to animal advocacy but asks whether doing any kind of advocacy in the modern uni is worthwhile.

[Dr Lachlan Clohesy @LachlanClohesy]

If you thought unis were increasingly being run like corporations, @NTEUnion research reported on across the country shows why - University Councils and Senates are being stacked with corporate appointments.
https://t.co/ZJYMX3hq8X

[Les Back @AcademicDiary]

Higher education blues! Feel so sad for friends and colleagues at Goldsmiths - there is a longer historic aspect to this tragedy about the legacy of community education but also the signal it sends through the whole sector. https://t.co/jZNTkiMxff

[Jo Littler @littler_jo]

Great to see journalism on UK universities in crisis.
But what still needs writing is an investigative piece on the 100s of millions spent by UK unis on private consultancies etc. Public money on corporate outsourcing is a key part of the picture.
https://t.co/CqEvTKNPGP

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I know all this. But it's still so good to hear it again, and again.

[Tertiary Education Union @nzteu]

"When asked if they experienced racism in their institutions, 11% of Māori general staff and 27% of academic staff in universities, and 14% of Māori general staff and 22% of academics in polytechnics, experienced discrimination because they are Māori." https://t.co/O0SM5MwkMe

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Years of friendship from her (not it!!) :)

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Our 'living wall' highlights some of the many problems facing academia in Aus/NA and around the world. It's not easy reading though. If it weren't all so heartbreaking, I'd say it reads like a thread from @ass_deans. @HigherEd_UK @nzteu @NTEUnion @CheckpointRNZ @7NewsAustralia

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@DrSLauricella @ReadTheSyllabus As well as being asked what I teach, I also get asked "what do you do with all that time off over summer?"

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@aliciaandrz bellhooks, howard becker, paulo freire

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Feeling tired today. Struggling with the neoliberalization of higher ed. https://t.co/WXDOEEeTA2

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These comments are so on the nose and make me laugh, daily.

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

We’ve introduced Double Factorial (n!!) Authentication. Good luck logging in. Successfully logging in is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for contract renewal.

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We post people's stories on our "living wall" and are thinking about a book and workshops to go along with it. What else can we do to draw attention to the problems HE is (and those working in it are) facing? @insidehighered @HigherEd_UK @NTEUnion @nzteu