Here is a new UC Davis course offering that will be all about the future of public higher education. Please note that interested faculty, staff, students, etc. are all welcome to attend:
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SOC298/CST298 Winter 2010
Public Higher Ed at the Crossroads
We will be meeting every other week winter term to discuss recent publications focused on the fate of public higher ed and invite participants from all walks of university life—students (for credit or not, as they wish), faculty, staff, administrators—to join us. First mtg: Wednesday 1/13, 4-6 PM in Art 203.
Here is our working plan, but let us know of your suggestions for other readings:
Wed 1/13 Mark G. Yudoff, “Exploring A New Role For Federal Government In Higher Education,” “Is the Public University Dead?,” “The Purgatory of the Public University,” “Higher Tuitions: Harbinger of a Hybrid University?,” and “Are University Systems a Good Idea?” George Lakoff, “Privatization is The Issue;” T.J. Clark, Speech on September 24th Judith Butler, “Save California’s Universities”
Wed 1/27 Clark Kerr, The Uses of the University, 5th Edition
Wed 2/10 Gaye Tuchman, Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University, and/or Jennifer Washburn, University, Inc: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education
Wed 2/24 Christopher Newfield, Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class
Wed 3/10 Readings on the future of higher education TBD, perhaps including the following: Andrew Ross, “The Mental Labor Problem” and “The Rise of the Global University” Nick Dyer-?Witheford, “Cognitive Capitalism and the Contested Campus”
Students seeking course credit can enroll for two units for reading and discussion only or four units with additional reading and a term paper in either SOC 298 (crn 60641) or CST 298 (crn 37917).
For PDFs of the first week’s readings: John Hall (jrhall@ucdavis.edu) or Blake Stimson (bstimson@ucdavis.edu)