Read this darkly funny in-progress comic by Ivan Ascher about how COVID-19 is turning college campuses upside down–or were they already being turned upside down by administrative politics, new student attitudes, and the neoliberalization of higher ed?

Ivan Ascher is an associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the author of Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction, published by Zone in 2016. He will also be a fellow in the 2020-21 academic year at the Center for 21st Century Studies.

Visit Ivan’s Webtoons page to read the rest of the comic!

Six panels of Ascher's webcomic showing a man walking into a university elevator past a "Wash Your Hands" sign
Six panels of Ascher's comic that show a professor and a department chair discussing the need to move the professor's classes online in response to coronavirus.
Four panels of Ascher's comic showing the department chair relaying student complaints about the content of the professor's class, followed by "To be continued.."

You can read the entire comic here, and stay tuned for Episode 2 later this week!

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