>From Yoshie's fwd, Chronicle of Higher Education (12/1/2000):
``After relying for years on anecdotal evidence and outdated statistics, the debate over the use of part-time faculty members took on new urgency last week with the release of a report filled with hard data. It suggested an even darker view of the situation than conventional wisdom supposed, showing that nontenure-track instructors make up almost half of the teaching staff in many humanities and social-science disciplines...'' (Ana Marix Cox)
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Saturn Eating His Children.
What of the longer historical view, for this continual erosion of the intellectual elite as they are transformed into an itinerate class of migratory artists, scholars, and scientists? Obviously their social role in a neoliberal state as the critical voice of bourgeois order is essentially in its institutionalized endgame.
There is a certain amount of promise in that demise, if and only if as class they can reproduce themselves outside their eventually foreclosed institutional protections.
Thoughts?
Chuck Grimes