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Resisting Neoliberalism through Expanding Professional Paths for Graduate Students of Rhetoric and Composition
Keel, Casey C
Keel, Casey C
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This project develops the meta-discourse regarding graduate education and progressive reforms as situated within neoliberal models of university of institutions. Since the late 1960s and early 1970s, institutions of higher education have divested in maintaining tenure-track jobs in lieu of developing a dependency on adjunct and graduate labor, thus creating a growing, low-wage labor pool within universities. The academic job market has suffered for a half-a-century and current graduate students are still being professionalized to apply for the professoriate despite the lack of available tenure-track jobs. This project utilizes neoliberal history, public sphere theory, and the field of rhetoric and composition to suggest reforms for rhet-comp graduate students so that professionalization can critically meet the real-life needs and goals of 21st century students, while also resisting neoliberal ideologies and material practices.
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2020-05-31
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University of Kansas
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Graduate Education, Graduate Reform, Neoliberalism, Public Sphere Theory