Tag: Higher Education
Reckoning with the Alma Mater
Olive Demar and Eli Meyerhoff look at the university’s role as a colonial and capitalist apparatus, arguing that we need to free education from the institutions that betray and abandon it.
Resisting Israeli Scholasticide and Academic Apartheid
Maya Wind outlines and expands her argument in Towers of Ivory and Steel for an academic boycott of Israeli universities and connects it to the broader encampment movement.
Forms of Radical Democracy
Will Clark goes beyond the scenes of repression to outline some of the liberatory possibilities presented by the encampment as political form.
Commencement Address at the People’s University for a Liberated Palestine
Spectre is proud to publish Ananya Roy’s commencement address from the People’s University for a Liberated Palestine.
Last Fair Deal in the Country
Jordy Cummings draws lessons from this year’s CUPE 3903 strike at York University in Toronto.
The Repression of Pro-Palestinian Education and Resistance
Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores analyzes Governor Abbott’s attempted repression of pro-Palestinian education in Texas, drawing out the larger role of Palestinian solidarity and organizing in and beyond a largely conservative academia.
Higher-Education Bargaining with the “New” UAW
Aaron Berman reflects on using accreditation as leverage and the impact of the new UAW leadership on the Academic Student Workers’ strike at the New School.
Antiracist History, Crisis Theory, and University Workers’ Struggles
Spectre’s Charlie Post interviews Rick Kuhn about his prolonged bout of Grossmania, ongoing university struggles in Australia, Bundism in Eastern Europe, and more
Standing Together Against Sexual Violence at Dartmouth
Nancy Welch interviews four of the plaintiffs in the recent #ScienceToo sexual harassment and assault class action suit against three professors at Dartmouth
A Semester to Die For
In our latest dispatch, an English professor argues that plowing ahead with university reopening in the fall is akin to the Thatcherite mantra, “There is no alternative.”