The Neoliberal University: How to Defend Education, Programs, and Jobs

A conversation about the struggle against neoliberalism in higher education with leading voices from the front lines.
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Higher education has been transformed over the last several decades. State funding has been dramatically reduced, tuition fees have exponentially increased, tenure track jobs have been replaced with adjuncts and graduate students, and staff have laid off and those that remain forced to work longer and harder for less,

The pandemic and recession have triggered an enormous crisis in this neoliberal model of higher education, putting not only jobs but entire institutions in jeopardy. This panel, organized by Spectre Journal, will address how faculty, staff and graduate students can organize and defend their jobs, programs, and higher education in the US.
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Panelists:

Cinzia Arruzza is associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. She is the Vice-President of the New School AAUP chapter and the co-author of Feminism for the 99%. A Manifesto. She is a member of the editorial board of Spectre Journal.

Kathleen Brown is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan in the department of American Culture and a member of the Graduate Employees' Union Local 3550. She helped organize GEO's historic 9-day abolitionist strike in September 2020 and studies 1930s transnational movements against fascism.

Henry Drobbin has been active in the Higher Education Labor Movement for the past 12 years. He held the title of Steward, Lead Steward, and Lead Organizer with The International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1205. Most recently, he worked with the Leadership of ACT-UAW 7902, AAUP, AFM 802, and IBT 1205 to form the New School Labor Coalition.

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