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Promoting Quality Higher Education– An Investment in Oregon’s Future

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Opportunity or Exploitation?

April 27, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

Inside Higher Ed

By Colleen Flaherty

April 25, 2018

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale felt the fury of academics scorned this week, after it asked its professors to ask alumni to assist with what is typically faculty work -- for free.

The university has defended the proposal, saying the Alumni Association pitched it as a way to connect terminal-degree-holding alumni with current students. But some have described it as a thinly veiled devaluation of already devalued academic labor.

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