SPEAKER: Charlie Eaton
Join us as we discuss how billionaires from finance and big tech adopted more oligarchical roles in US politics and higher education with Charlie Eaton, Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Merced and author of the book Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education. Charlie Eaton is an […]
Part of ourColleges and universities are core to our communities and economy. How do we grow the higher ed labor movement while building consciousness of ourselves as workers? Join speakers from HELU to explore strategies for building connections and trust between very different kinds of workers so that we can move in coordinated action in the future. […]
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In our moment of fascist authoritarianism and war, what does an abolitionist approach to the university offer? In this session, Abolitionist University Studies authors Eli Meyerhoff, Abbie Boggs, Nick Mitchell, and Zach Schwartz will provide an overview of what abolitionist perspectives provide for thinking about the university. Together, we’ll explore questions of debt and capture […]
Part of ourSPEAKER: Doha Mekki
Join guest speaker Doha Mekki, formerly the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the DOJ’s antitrust division, to learn how corporate consolidation in education drives up tuition and how antitrust enforcement can help protect affordability. Doha Mekki is a Senior Fellow at the University of California Berkeley Law School’s Center for Consumer Law & Economic […]
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