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Casualization Trend is Bad For Higher Ed

I’ve arrived at the end of the sixth year, and I know the Dean’s Office hopes it is my last. In the Graduate School of the future, “2-4” always equals six. Part of making that happen is the Dissertation Progress Report, requests for which were e-mailed to Ph.D. candidates a few days ago. Like Nietzsche’s dragon with scales that read “thou shalt” and “thou shalt not,” it is replete with commandments of what I will submit, describe, report and confess. Let me try to take stock of what I’ve done and learned, here at what is supposed to be the end of my graduate career. At least it has this going for it: It’s a love story.

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	GESO TEACH-OUT! On Tuesday, April 24th, members of GESO, joined by supporters from Locals 34 & 35, the New Haven community, and academic unions throughout the Northeast, rallied in the streets of New Haven for a "Teach-Out" against the casualization* of academic work at Yale and universities across the country. Prof. Cary Nelson (pictured above), the President of the American Association of University Professors, gave the keynote address ____________________________________________ CLICK HERE to watch our VIDEO & hear what faculty, students, and graduate employees at Yale have to say about casualization.*
	Read our new RESOLUTIONS on recognition and contingent academic labor! Adopted at the last Membership Meeting, March 7, 2007 ____________________________________________ NEW PLATFORM! After vigorous discussion at the GESO Membership Meeting (December 2006), the membership ratified a new GESO PLATFORM and DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES. ____________________________________________
	Posted April 17, 2007 I 1:30 p.m. How much teaching instruction at Yale is done by contigent faculty? Read the latest edition of the GESO newsletter, VOICE, and find out!

In the News . . . 4.25.07 I WPNR Demonstration for more full-time teachers 4.25.07 I Yale Daily News GESO protests trend in hiring primarily part-time faculty 3.27.07 I Inside Higher Ed Inexorable March to a Part-Time Faculty 3.26.07 I Inside Higher Ed Off the Picket Lines 3.26.07 I Chronicle of Higher Ed Tentative Pact May End Faculty Strike at Community College of Philadelphia 3.26.07 I Yale Daily News Y-NH guide shows anti-union attitude	Posted May 23, 2007 I 12:40 p.m. Casualization Trend is Bad For Higher Ed I’ve arrived at the end of the sixth year, and I know the Dean’s Office hopes it is my last. In the Graduate School of the future, “2-4” always equals six. Part of making that happen is the Dissertation Progress Report, requests for which were e-mailed to Ph.D. candidates a few days ago. Like Nietzsche’s dragon with scales that read “thou shalt” and “thou shalt not,” it is replete with commandments of what I will submit, describe, report and confess. Let me try to take stock of what I’ve done and learned, here at what is supposed to be the end of my graduate career. At least it has this going for it: It’s a love story. For the full article, click here.	To learn more about Yale Graduate School's proposals to shorten time-to-degree, and its impact on quality graduate education and our longterm career prospects,click here. Published Fall 2006

Posted May 23, 2007 I 12:40 p.m.

Casualization Trend is Bad For Higher Ed