Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities seeks to develop a counterculture that eschews the neoliberal ideology and interloping market values in higher education. More than merely lamenting the disruptive effects of these marketplace values in higher education institutions, it develops both theoretical insights and practical organizing strategies pertinent to challenging new academic-capitalist values and behaviors. Contributors, local and international, present cases from various institutions to illuminate how national trends concerning contingent faculty are articulated, implemented, and challenged at the local level. They present organizing strategies which are analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective, providing a thorough and comprehensive view of the contingent labor movement. This book will provide useful lessons to a broad array of audiences in universities, labor movements, and national and local governments.

The poems in this chapbook draw on the author's experience with life, love, abuse, and literature. The decision to privatize or publish intimate material was clarified beyond doubt one mid-December evening after she was nearly run down by a car, chased up a concrete stairwell, and narrowly escaped her abuser thanks to a neighbor's timely intervention. Though she was able to call 911 and obtain a restraining order within 24 hours after the incident, not all victims survive to tell, and some even choose to stay silent out of fear, shame, and/or denial. The only way to Stop DV Now is to speak up and out against it.