O’Malley, S. G. (2017). Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education By Michael Fabricant and Steve Brier. Radical Teacher, 108(1), 45–48. https://doi.org/10.5195/rt.2017.383
The review analyzes how the neoliberal agenda has affected public higher education and what we have done and must do to organize against the its erosion.
Susan O'Malley is on the editorial board of Radical Teacher and is one of its founders. She taught at CUNY for 37 years (Kingsborough CC - English) and (Graduate Center - Liberal Studies). From 2002-2006 she was Chair of the CUNY Faculty Senate. She also served as Chair of the KCC Union and was on the Executive Committee of the Professional Stafff Congress (PSC) for 9 years. She is currently Chair of the NGO, the Committee on the Status of Women/NY, that works with UN Women and the Commission on the Status of Women at the UN.
