BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Central Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Central Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:\nToday\, academic leaders will be tempted to double down on th e private good definition of universities under a president who reveres pr ivate wealth and transactional business relationships. This talk argues th at this will further reduce the university’s stature in the eyes of both t he Trump administration and the public. In contrast\, restoring the univer sity’s broad public impact will fix its public reputation and reenergize i ts students and personnel. This lecture extends the argument of Chris Newf ield’s The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Ca n Fix Them.\n\nChristopher Newfield is Professor of literature and America n studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Much of his res earch is in Critical University Studies\, which links his enduring concern with humanities teaching to the study of how higher education continues t o be re-shaped by industry and other economic forces. His most recent book s on this subject are The Great Mistake (2016)\, Unmaking the Public Unive rsity: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class (2008)\, and Ivy and Ind ustry: Business and the Making of the American University\, 1880-1980 (200 3). He blogs on higher education policy at Remaking the University\, and w rites for the Huffington Post\, Inside Higher Ed\, and the Chronicle of Hi gher Education.\n\nSponsor: \nCFA\, NTFC Local #6546\, English\, IPRH\, Un it for Criticism\, Department of Education Policy\, Organization &\; Le adership\, CAS\, Gender &\; Women’s Studies\, and the Higher Education Collaborative in the College of Education. DTEND:20170208T003000Z DTSTAMP:20240329T114512Z DTSTART:20170207T230000Z LOCATION:IL\,USA\,Champaign SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Christopher Newfield\, "The Populist University: Expanding Public C olleges in the Trump Era" UID:RFCALITEM638472915120156635 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
\nToday\, academic leaders will be tempted to double down on the private good definition of universities under a pres ident who reveres private wealth and transactional business relationships. This talk argues that this will further reduce the university’s stature i n the eyes of both the Trump administration and the public. In contrast\, restoring the university’s broad public impact will fix its public reputat ion and reenergize its students and personnel. This lecture extends the ar gument of Chris Newfield’s The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Univer sities and How We Can Fix Them.\n
\nChristopher Newfield is Professor of literature and American studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Much of his research is in Critical Universit y Studies\, which links his enduring concern with humanities teaching to t he study of how higher education continues to be re-shaped by industry and other economic forces. His most recent books on this subject are The Great Mistake (2016)\, Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class (2008)\, and Ivy and Industry: B usiness and the Making of the American University\, 1880-1980 (2003)< em>. He blogs on higher education policy at Remaking the University\, and writes for the Huffington Post\, Inside Higher Ed\, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.\n
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\nCFA\, NTFC L ocal #6546\, English\, IPRH\, Unit for Criticism\, Department of Education Policy\, Organization &\; Leadership\, CAS\, Gender &\; Women’s Stu dies\, and the Higher Education Collaborative in the College of Education.
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