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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:[embed]https://youtu.be/7nUPqcrrIvc[/embed]\n\nJoin us as we di
 scuss university governing boards with Timothy Kaufman-Osborn\, Professor 
 Emeritus at Whitman College and author of the book The Autocratic Academy
 : Reenvisioning Rule within America's Universities and Constance Penley\,
  Professor Emerita at UC Santa Barbara and former President of the Council
  of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA).\n\nWhether publ
 ic or private\, U.S. universities are autocratically ruled by external lay
  governing boards whose members are neither selected by nor accountable to
  their subjects\, including faculty\, staff\, and students. However\, this
  legally organized monopoly of power is increasingly checked by the academ
 y's incorporation into a financialized political economy. The accumulation
  of institutional debt\, for example\, renders American universities depen
 dent on\, if not subordinate to\, powers beyond their control (for example
 \, credit rating agencies\, debt covenants\, firms that manage so-called "
 alternative" investments\, etc.). In short\, the governing boards perched 
 atop the organization charts of our universities are far more insecure tha
 n they appear\, and it behooves us to expose and exploit that vulnerabilit
 y.\n\n 	Timothy Kaufman-Osborn is professor emeritus at Whitman College an
 d the author\, most recently\, of The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Ru
 le Within America's Universities. He is a member of the steering committee
  of the Coalition for Action in Higher Education and\, for the past two de
 cades\, has served on the board of directors of the American Civil Liberti
 es Union of Washington.\n\n\n\n\n 	Constance Penley is Professor Emerita o
 f Film and Media Studies and Professor of the Graduate Division at UC Sant
 a Barbara. She served as President of the Council of University of Califor
 nia Faculty Associations (CUCFA)\, which is partnered with AAUP-AFT\, from
  2018 to 2025. CUCFA and the UCLA Faculty Association successfully sued th
 e UC Regents to compel disclosure of the proposed DOJ settlement agreement
 \, among many other efforts to hold campus leaders accountable.\n\n\nThis 
 session is a part of the larger Jubilee School: College for All series.\n\
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