Presenting an episode from a weekly videocast series called Shelter & Solidarity: A Deep Dive with Artists and Activists, hosted by Joe Ramsey (Senior Lecturer, English and American Studies). The first hour covers the future of higher education and the second hour is on organizing for this year’s recently passed May Day.
About the episode: The COVID19 pandemic has created a new set of uncertainties and challenges for higher education, while compounding existing problems, inequities, and struggles already afflicting our colleges and universities. How can and how are faculty responding to the challenges–both the dangers and opportunities–of this pandemic moment? As educators? As workers? As organizers?
What are the threats we face right now in higher ed, and how can we come together, on and across campuses, to confront them, both politically and pedagogically? What are the strategies and tactics in this moment that hold the most promise for protecting and projecting further what is most valuable about higher learning in this moment?
Guests included:
*Anna Kornbluh (University of Illinois Chicago) author of the recent Chronicle of Higher Ed article “Academe’s Coronavirus Shock Doctrine”
*Barbara Madeloni (Education Director of Labor Notes & former MTA President)
*Ben Manski, a long-time organizer for democracy in education, UC Santa Barbara Ph.D. candidate active in the University of California wildcat strikes.
*Chris Newfield, (UC Santa Barbara), author of The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and What We Can Do to Fix Them
For more information on this episode and the Shelter & Solidarity series, please visit http://www.shelterandsolidarity.org and/or contact Joe at Joseph dot Ramsey at UMB dot com.
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