***** From: Leo Parascondola <leoparas at earthlink.net>
ECONOMIC CRISIS OF THE UNIVERSITY Conference sponsored by RADICAL TEACHER Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St., New Haven October 2, 1999
Registration, coffee: 10:00; $5.00 fee includes cold lunch
Session 1: 10:30-12:00--Dimensions and Causes of the Crisis
Chair, Arthur MacEwan (Economics, U. Mass/Boston)
* Masato Aoki (Economics, Simmons), on how corporate needs for education shifted in the 80s and 90s * Julie Buckler (Slavic, Harvard), on degradation and feminization of labor in the corporate university * Rick Wolff (Economics, U. Mass/Amherst), on expansion of public higher education, 1945-1970, and now contraction; a class analysis
Lunch: 12:00-1:30
Session 2, 1:30-3:15--New Alliances and Strategies
Chair, Susan O'Malley (English, Kingsborough CC, CUNY)
* Steve Parks (English, Temple), on Teachers for a Democratic Culture and the project of linking and organizing progressive caucuses in the professions (caucus reps will get together during the conference) * Lori Brooks (African American Studies, Yale), on GESO (Graduate Employees and Students Organization), and its work with non-academic unions in New Haven * Nancy Romer (Psychology, Brooklyn College), on the New Caucus at CUNY, and its efforts to build a movement while fighting Giuliani, Pataki, Badillo, Schmidt, and so on * Cynthia Young (Africana Studies, Binghamton [1999-2000, New York University]), on the coalition and labor support work of Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice (SAWSJ)
Session 3, 3:30-5:15--Imagining a Better University While Defending the One We Have
Chair, Joseph Entin (American Studies, Yale)
* Larry Hanley (English, City College), on defending the university system we have, while working for a better one * A speaker to be named on SUNY Old Westbury, and how a state college founded on a progressive plan did and didn't turn out well * Victor Goode (CUNY School of Law) on how that school has stuck to its project of social justice in adverse times and circumstances * Frinde Maher (Education, Wheaton College), on what has happened to communitarian and radical project of early women's studies programs
Session 4, 5:30-6:15 Review and critique of the conference: where do we go from here?
Chair, Paul Lauter (English, Trinity) Paul Lauter
Allan K. & Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106, USA 860-297-2303; fax: 860-297-5258 e-mail: paul.lauter at trincoll.edu
"You don't need a weatherman To know which way the wind blows"
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