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URL:https://debtcollective.org/event/college-for-all-jubilee-school-democr
 atic-governance/
SUMMARY:College for All Jubilee School: University Governing Boards - Autoc
 rats or Puppets?
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we discuss university governing boards with Timothy 
 Kaufman-Osborn\, Professor Emeritus at Whitman College and author of the b
 ook The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule within America's Universit
 ies and Constance Penley\, Professor Emerita at UC Santa Barbara and form
 er President of the Council of University of California Faculty Associatio
 ns (CUCFA).\n\nWhether public or private\, U.S. universities are autocrati
 cally ruled by external lay governing boards whose members are neither sel
 ected by nor accountable to their subjects\, including faculty\, staff\, a
 nd students. However\, this legally organized monopoly of power is increas
 ingly checked by the academy's incorporation into a financialized politica
 l economy. The accumulation of institutional debt\, for example\, renders 
 American universities dependent on\, if not subordinate to\, powers beyond
  their control (for example\, credit rating agencies\, debt covenants\, fi
 rms that manage so-called "alternative" investments\, etc.). In short\, th
 e governing boards perched atop the organization charts of our universitie
 s are far more insecure than they appear\, and it behooves us to expose an
 d exploit that vulnerability.\n\n 	Timothy Kaufman-Osborn is professor eme
 ritus at Whitman College and the author\, most recently\, of The Autocrati
 c Academy: Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities. He is a membe
 r of the steering committee of the Coalition for Action in Higher Educatio
 n and\, for the past two decades\, has served on the board of directors of
  the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington.\n 	Constance Penley is 
 Professor Emerita of Film and Media Studies and Professor of the Graduate 
 Division at UC Santa Barbara. She served as President of the Council of Un
 iversity of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA)\, which is partnered w
 ith AAUP-AFT\, from 2018 to 2025. CUCFA and the UCLA Faculty Association s
 uccessfully sued the UC Regents to compel disclosure of the proposed DOJ s
 ettlement agreement\, among many other efforts to hold campus leaders acco
 untable.\n\nThis session is a part of the larger Jubilee School: College f
 or All series.
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