milolutz | Shared With: Everyone - May 12 2007 | culture wars, poststructuralism, academia
Smell that? That's the smell of academic freedom.
And this is exactly why I teach critical social theory and not "science" (which she'd also have a problem with).
- milolutz | Shared With: Everyone - May 08 2007 | academia, class
Quoted: Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession:Financial Inequality in Higher Education
- milolutz | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 30 2006 | labor, academia
Quoted: The fragile economic state of some of Vanderbilt’s union employees and the contrast with the university’s spending elsewhere has become a point of contention.
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