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business-izing higher ed: I’m not scared

A few days back, this post about higher ed in the UK appeared over on one of my favorite blogs, Fem­i­nist Philoso­phers. Here’s the big quote: “Busi­ness sec­re­tary wants stu­dents and par­ents to be treated more like cus­tomers in pro­pos­als to over­haul higher edu­ca­tion.” The orig­i­nal poster wor­ries that “uni­ver­si­ties get put under a great …

November 6, 2009 – 10:27 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in economics-ish, education, politics & political, teaching | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Cargo, your lip gloss insults my intelligence

If you are not famil­iar with Sarah Hask­ins and her video series, “Tar­get Women,” you should be! She does a great job of hilar­i­ously expos­ing the absur­di­ties of adver­tis­ing that, well, tar­gets women. In the Sarah Hask­ins spirit, I have to share with you my unhap­pi­ness with this prod­uct, Cargo Clas­sic Lip Gloss. Ordi­nar­ily, I would …

August 23, 2009 – 7:40 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in feminism, miscellaneous | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)