Marc Bousquet and Fwen Bradley: The Fight for Public higher education http://www.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=B012A #mla12 #s167

In #s167 to watch @jbj "Fight for Public Higher Education." He's promised an *angry* slide. #mla12 #profhackersrolldeep

Bousquet: huge gap btw perception of wealth dist & actual distribution. To get to the misunderstanding, we'd need revolution. #s167 #mla12

Bousquet: the average American is a communist at heart. #s167 #mla12

Bousquet: 80% of college students work 30 hours / week while attending college #s167 #mla12 // Not sure if those are full-time students tho

Bousquet against trickle-down higher ed reform: "The only real solutions must be framed from the POV of the excluded majority." #s167 #mla12

Bousquet: We don't begin to understand the majority conditions on campus: for students who work & learn, for contingent faculty #s167 #mla12

Bousquet: Problems of community college dropuot: work too much, poorly prepared, instructors overworked and underqualified. #s167 #mla12

Bousquet: We need to end the superexploitation of students, who do the work of the university in teaching and elsewhere. #s167 #mla12

Bousquet: Calls for Occupying MLA, but no mention of @occupymla. #s167 #mla12

Bousquet: What would happen if submerged 80% of profession were to occupy governing positions of professional bodies? #s167 #mla12

I miss @occupymla. RT @briancroxall: Bousquet: Calls for Occupying MLA, but no mention of @occupymla. #s167 #mla12

A sad void exists in my soul post- @occupymla RT @briancroxall Bousquet: Calls for Occupying MLA, but no mention of @occupymla. #s167 #mla12

Bousquet is lauding the teacher-run charter school movement (cf @chadsansing & #occupyedu) as a model for higher ed. #mla12 #s167

Underqualified???? BS! MT @briancroxall Bousquet: Prob of comm college dropout: instructors overworked + underqualified. #s167 #mla12

@BendProf Meaning that many of them don't have PhDs. #s167 #mla12

.@jbj is up to the mic. This slide better be good. #s167 #mla12

.@jbj: Tenure track people can retire as much as they like and they will never ever ever be replaced. #s167 #mla12

.@jbj: It's important to be impolite about this topic. #s167 #mla12

.@jbj: You have more allies than the administration does or that the critics of higher ed have. #s167 #mla12

The slides of @jbj, by the way, are all LEGO images. #s167 #mla12

.@jbj: Parents don't care about the vice provost for institutional whatever. They care about the faculty member who mentors kid #s167 #mla12

.@jbj: Many people in higher ed are afraid of the media. That's a mistake. #s167 #mla12

.@jbj: What the press hears is from Provosts and the like. The faculty voice isn't heard at @Chronicle or @Insidehighered #s167 #mla12

.@jbj: Governance matters. You need people on committees who care about future of the institution and won't kneejerk approve #s167 #mla12