Given the volume of extant scholarship and journalism on the administrative and legal dismantling of faculty governance for decades, this is would be an embarrassing story to publish in a high school newspaper. Oh, look, a sardonic caricature of workplace democracy from nameless “critics” who prefer the ease of authoritarianism.

Print it! says the newspaper facing a possible strike of its own workers next week.

UPDATE ON THE NEW SCHOOL STRIKE:

We won. instagram.com/p/CmAy6Z7oqht/

@TheNewSchool bosses have trumpeted promises of big raises for Part-Time Faculty.

They hope to distract @UAW7902 members and allies from their offer's poison pill:

Stripping health care protections—which they just violated—out of the old contract.

Some context:
1/8 The old Part-Time Faculty contract prohibited TNS from changing to non-comparable health plans w/o consultation.

In May 2022, @UAW7902 proved to a third-party arbitrator that @TheNewSchool had been violating the contract for over a year. 2/8
newschoolfreepress.com/2022/05/02/par…

This piece is fun and fascinating, but its history is off the mark.

Bachelier's "Theory of Speculation" (1900) didn't inspire the modern hedge fund, even if it came to inform some funds' investment strategies.

The real story is wilder.🧵 1/9
newyorker.com/culture/cultur… The first modern hedge fund arrived on the scene in 1949--decades before the reanimation of Bachelier in the 1970s.

Its "proposition” wasn’t so crass as “profit at all prices.”

Far from it.
jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/artic…

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