In the second episode, Dianey Leal joins us. She is a PhD student in Higher Education and Chicano/Latino Studies at Michigan State University. In this episode, Dianey walks us through the deepest corners of the neoliberal university and describes to us in detail the myriad characteristics of it. While she shows the ways that the neoliberal university crafts its members in unexpected ways, she also touches on the immediate impacts of it. As she experiences the neoliberal university as a PhD student, we wanted to ask her experience as well. She was generous enough to share with us the toolkit that she generated over the years to cope with the system. As she says, maybe we cannot destroy the neoliberal university, but with a few little steps that we can take to redefine what PhD life and academia are for us, we can disrupt the neoliberal university.

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