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Dig: Higher Ed Crisis w/ Dennis Hogan

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🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Featuring Dennis Hogan on the crisis in higher education. The first in a two-part series. Next up: Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on how university workers can fight back through industrial unionism.


Read Dan's interview in The Nation thenation.com/article/world/qa-daniel-denvir


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0:00.0

This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com

0:04.8

and by the podcast La Brega from WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios.

0:11.6

Puerto Rico is an island steeped in music, a place where they say even the rocks sing.

0:16.8

And from epic solstice to bad bunny, you can hear Puerto Rican music all over the world.

0:22.8

These are songs about home and leaving, songs about freedom and fighting for it.

0:28.5

There's a new season of La Brega. It's the Puerto Rican experience in eight songs.

0:34.8

This season takes listeners on an exciting, richly reported, cross-genre adventure

0:40.4

that captures the ceaseless creativity, emotional resonance, and yes, La Brega,

0:45.8

that are hallmarks of Puerto Rican music across eras and formats.

0:50.8

I was a huge fan of season one of La Brega, and am in fact just an enormous fan of anything

0:55.9

Alana Casanova Burgess does. So please, do make sure to listen to season one and two.

1:01.2

These are stories about Puerto Rico told by Puerto Ricans from the island and across the diaspora.

1:06.3

La Brega, season two, out now from WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios.

1:12.4

Listen in English and Spanish wherever you get podcasts.

1:15.7

Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jack up in magazine. My name is Daniel Denver,

1:30.0

and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

1:33.9

The crisis in higher education is a multifaceted one.

1:37.5

Graduate students trained to be professors cannot find jobs.

1:42.0

The vast majority of professors today are not even working tender track jobs.

1:46.4

Instead, academics everywhere struggle to piece together enough classes,

1:50.8

paying a few thousand bucks a piece to survive.

1:54.0

Undergraduate sleeve college buried under debt, debt that today's labor and housing markets

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