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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Schools Matter: Stanley Fish Supports Higher Ed Unions (gasp) and Declares "We are All Badgers Now" #wiunion

Schools Matter: Stanley Fish Supports Higher Ed Unions (gasp) and Declares "We are All Badgers Now"

Stanley Fish Supports Higher Ed Unions (gasp) and Declares "We are All Badgers Now"

This has to rank right up there with Diane Ravitch coming down from her neat corporate view at 20,000 feet to see the destruction among children, parents, and teachers on the ground. As I said thank you and welcome to Diane, I extend the same hand of solidarity to Stanley Fish, whose behind on most faculty labor issues over the years has been so tight as to blunt even any needle potentially driven by a 16 ounce hammer (I hope I said that in a way that wasn't too offensive to Stanley).

From the New York Times:
A conversation about unionization and higher education between Stanley Fish and Walter Benn Michaels, professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

SF: In over 35 years of friendship and conversation, Walter Michaels and I have disagreed on only two things, and one of them was faculty and graduate student unionization. He has always been