“WE won’t pay for YOUR Crisis!”: New Struggles in the University Economy
When: Tuesday, Feb. 24: 7pm
Where: Saunders 220, UNC-CH
With Anna Curcio, Brett Nielson and Michael Palm
Is the current financial crisis affecting the university? University of Arizona is apparently over the brink, Princeton is bankrupt, and university job offers are being erased in the NY area. Is the crisis accentuating a threatening tendency in higher education towards a university model as “post-fordist knowledge factory + corporate research laboratory”, as some are claiming? At the same time, is there a better place to be than a university in times of crisis? how can we defend that space? what opportunities might this crisis open?
Join us to hear how others have been organizing in and around the university. How people have blasted open the narrow vision of the university as an ivory tower to demand rights to a just livelihood and access to education. Speakers from New York, Sydney-Australia and Rome-Italy will join us to discuss new ways that students, faculty and employees are taking the university to task for what it is – a tower of power not ivory.
brett neilson: associate professor in social and cultural analysis, University of Western Sydney, founder member of the edu-factory collective and co-editor of Global University. Hierarchies and Self-education in the Knowledge Market (Autonomedia forthcoming)
related links:
The Anomalous Wave (www.uniriot.org)
Co-sponsored by the Counter Cartographies Collective and the Social Movements Working Group