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By jdupuis on November 28, 2013.
  • The College Boom Has Peaked
  • The Emergent Academic Proletariat and its Shortchanged Students
  • Why I’m quitting the academy
  • On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
  • Our great, global cities are turning into vast gated citadels where the elite reproduces itself
  • Dear corporations, we’ll trade you a few cents for a better life
  • MOOCs and Economic Reality
  • When MOOCs profit, who pays?
  • Miami-Dade County Will No Longer Close Any Public Libraries But 169 Librarians Would Lose Jobs, Hours Reduced
  • Rebuilding the world technology destroyed
  • College for Free
  • Blood Money, or How Academia is like The Sopranos
  • A Ghost Town With a Quad: Is that the future of the American university?
  • The Age of Amazon: Has Jeff Bezos thrust us into a nightmare version of a consumer utopia?
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