[lbo-talk] Disappoint With #125

[Carrol Cox]

Far too many faculty, of course, have the same ignorant view of
university reality that Chuck Loucks has. I remember hearing faculty in
the elevator identifying higher pay with higher tuition -- the facts are
the opposite. The route to higher pay for faculty and lower tuition for
students is the same as in any sector of the working class: solidarity,
which means identifying rather than opposign faculty-student interests.
CL is simply a fink for capital.

Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to figure out exactly what this means. Speaking as faculty
> (non-tenure-track at the moment, for the record), I see myself as precisely
> not admin, and, on the other hand, as entirely pro-student . . . at least
> when it comes to students learning something.
> 
> And I'll tell you another thing for sure: administration does *not* see
> faculty as administration . . . faculty are simply the enemy: we cost money,
> and we engage students mainly where they least like to be engaged -- namely,
> in classrooms. Also, we surely get more students complaining about what they
> don't like about faculty than about anything else at the school, with the
> possible exception of food services, which are universally loathed pretty
> much at every school I've ever been associated with (whether as student or
> as faculty).
> 
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Chuck Loucks <lbo at hvgreens.org> wrote:
> 
> >  People
> > on this list are clearly on the Admin/Professor side of the world.  I guess
> > I now
> > understand what it was like being around that professor denied tenure in
> > Huntsville
> > who went postal!  My perspective is on the student side.
> >
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