OT MSU/UM Professor on leave after forcing students to buy a subscription to her website
In the category of WTF. MSU/UM professor Amy Wisner forced her Marketing students to buy a $100 / yr subscription to her website "Patriarchy Rebellion Community". The school has placed her on leave while they investigate. All stories online reference her as being at MSU where this was reported out, but wonder if UM has a similar problem.
In the early 2000s, I heard that a few students created a student-to-student book exchange which took place for about a week in a Union room. I have never before or since heard of a student organization that did more good for the community.
I always bought the cheaper foreign issued books. The text was the same, but the questions at the end of the chapter were in different order. I would just ask a friend to see their question order, so if 1 thru 10 were assigned, I just needed to see how mine lined up. Saved some cash that way.
ARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH
Coursepacks <-- wondering if those things would hold up to the scrutiny of this day and age.
I remember it too. I was from a cash strapped family and paid for everything myself. $50,000 and every time I went to the book store and print shop, I was pissed.
Probably because the university approved said text book.
lol please tell me this was a joke and you don't actually believe "the university" approves individual textbooks in any way that goes beyond professors choosing them.
I think the difference is that the textbook ostensibly goes through a legit publisher and the prof gets royalties, whereas this site is owned and operated by this prof and she can talk a good game about supporting causes for a Bully-Free Future (TM), but really, the money goes to her and it's really just pure profit after covering her expenses and donating whatever percentage she wants.
Both profit off the scheme, this is just much more direct.
Additionally, you can sometimes find a used version of the textbook. Requiring a one-year subscription to a 14 week class seems gauche.
It's funny that there is a $5 word to describe someone who lacks grace. I hear it used more often since Taylor Swift said it in one of her songs.
Look I don’t have grace, I don’t want grace…I don’t even say grace
You don't want too much grace....you won't be able to stand.
Went to HS with a girl names Grace, and trust me, you would say Grace, you would want Grace, and you would want to have Grace.
Pics of Grace or it never happened.
Go Blue!!!!
Grace? She died last year!
That was one of my dad's favorite words, often used in conjunction with "boorish." If he got $5 for every time he used it, he'd be a very wealthy man.
It's a fantastic word. Very descriptive, not overused, holds up over time.
Textbooks typically have to be reviewed by academic publishers and most textbooks authors only make a small percentage of the gross sale.
Because taking Property with Krier is worth it.
I also didn't mind JJ White requiring the UCC.
Or Crim Law with Jerry Israel or First Amendment with Kamisar. Those fellas sold a few books in their day
It could be a lot different. It depends on what the class is. Also, you can usually resell a book you are buying for a class. If you don’t sell, you at least own the book. This sounds like $100 for access to a website that may or may not contain course information. Is this peer reviewed information cultivated from reliable sources? Also, $100 seems steep.
This seems like a person trying to groom young minds to join her movement and telling them how to think rather than providing them an education and the tools to think for themselves. I fear for the educational outlook of the future.
Cough cough Prof. Markovits...cough
Related question: how is this different than students in the Architecture school working at or below minimum wage* in the practices of the professors who consider and award merit scholarships to students?
*Because wtf is a "stipend"?
One of the most annoying things from my college experience. I had at least two professors at UofM who wrote their own textbook and updated the edition every 2 or so years so as to turf the used book market and extract more dollars from college kids with $20 in their pocket. Shameful behavior
What's the big deal? I was thinking of make all my students buy subscriptions to MGoBlog and negotiating a revenue-sharing deal with Seth. Just think of all those sweet sweet MGoPoints I'll be able to spend.
Technically she has not been an adjunct at UM business school since 2021, according to her own LinkedIn site.
That said, I have to agree with those that argue is this really anything more than a new technological version of an old issue: requiring your own textbook/material to be purchased.
Amy talks about Amy in the third person.
Amy is audacious and unapologetic in her quest to smash oppressive systems. As a former rule-following good girl, she can deeply empathize with anyone who struggles to break the rules. Once upon a time, she wanted nothing more than to check the patriarchal life boxes, keep everyone happy, and "live happily ever after."
What a crock. (more on that here)
At any rate, Amy decided to stop coloring her gray hair at nearly 40 years old... and the rest was history. A few years later, she chose to become a single mom by choice through double-donor IVF. She's now living her best life as Olivia and Caleb's mom, a professor at Michigan State University, and the founder of The Rebellion @cancelthepatriarchy.org.
Amy is an interpersonal communication researcher and professor who passionately peruses research journals and other academic publications for fun. (Yeah, she's a nerd.) She's a lifelong learner with a background in business and a deep need to understand everything she can about human communication behavior. She researches social influence with the goal of identifying the kinds of people who can create meaningful social change.
This all sure does... fit the bill
Of course you would say that. You're just part of the patriarchy.
/s
She's offending all the weinered humans who do whatever our wives tell us.
(which mgihillbilly suspects is every man in a successful marriage)
Whenever I hear this sentiment (and there's a decent amount of it here, probably because this site is mostly male), I wonder who ya'll are marrying! My husband is a really good guy but definitely doesn't defer to me all the time and if he did, I probably wouldn't want to be married to him. By the same token, I do make the decisions about cooking because he has no idea. He thinks you can make everything in a toaster oven.
My wife has three younger sisters, no brothers, and immigrated to the states when she was 5. They all have advanced degrees, are successful and strong willed. Family get togethers are centered around them and their parents or the extended family. That was pretty clear for all the husband's before we married in. (Not a big deal anyway since my racist family decided to blow off my wedding and reception)
To be fair, we do share in decision making and I am strong willed too, but anything other than that and we would both get bored with each other. She travels frequently to visit all of her friends and goes out for dinner while I hold down the fort.
(oh, and my wife thinks you can make anything in an instant pot)
Tl;dr - my wife and I have a healthy balance because we respect each other.
I knew you were likely joking, but it's a joke that a lot of men throw around and it always makes me wonder if there isn't a little bit of truth in it, at least for some. It's just not something I see in our friends. I see mostly shared decisions but sometimes the husband or wife are just better at making some decisions than their counterparts.
Perhaps there is still time, even at this late date, to teach him.....how to use a microwave.
Like MGH, my relationship with my wife was about balance. We each deferred to the other on certain things, differed in opinions on others, reached compromises. We did everything together, except grocery shop. When we tried doing that together someone usually got hurt, usually emotionally, but I had to drive her to the hospital to get stitches once while the ice cream melted in the back of the minivan.
I have to compromise when we go to the grocery store because we have very different shopping styles and it's better to just let people be who they are rather than try to bend them to become who you think they should be. But I draw the line at frozen pizzas: they go in the regular oven, not the toaster oven.
Compromise and microwave it!
Meh. In simpland maybe.
Sounds like someone needs the RBL101 + COACHING package.
All for the low, low price of $499
#contrepreneur
almost like she came off the assembly line
Photo and description checks out.
That's racist.
/s
Until proven otherwise this is the product of Culture War AI.
Any prof that uses this many cliches should probably throw in the towel.
Ric Flair was more humble.
All I can say is that, as a lefty, this is the kind of liberal that drives me f'in' crazy! This kind of thing is just an outright gift to. . . I don't even need to say it.
There's not a lot of honor where a 'R' or a 'D' follows one's name these days.
Sooner folks realize that, they better off we will all be.
A few years later, she chose to become a single mom by choice
Chose by choice?
Got it.
For a communications prof. :facepalm:
If she chooses not to decide, she still has made a choice.
Choosey single moms choose to be single and choose Jif.
Found the Rush fan.
Hate Rush with the heat of a thousand blazing suns, but that was still worthy of an upvote.