Professor Rudy Fichtenbaum
“Neoliberalism, Corporatization and the Crisis in Higher Education”
Negotiations Kickoff
National AAUP President; Professor, Economics, Wright State University
Thursday, September 10, 1:00 PM
Storrs Student Union Theatre
Lecture Description:
Much has been written about the corporatization of higher education i.e., running institutions of higher education as if they were businesses. In public higher education. This talk will place the use of the corporate model in higher education in the broader context of the neoliberal agenda, which has been ascendant for the last 40 years. This talk will show that placing the use of the corporate model in higher education in this broader context, has implications for how the AAUP should respond to the current crisis in higher education.
Rudy Fichtenbaum is a professor of Economics at Wright State University. In 2010 he was the recipient of the AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress’s Sternberg Award for demonstrating concern for human rights, courage, persistence, political foresight, imagination, and collective bargaining skills. In 2012 he was elected the fifteenth President of the American Association of University Professors. He was re-elected in 2014 .
Open to the UConn community. For online viewing visit:
https://mediasite.dl.uconn.edu/Mediasite/Play/9578a26cb60d4cc0aa3a716420c83b321d
For more information, contact: Chris Henderson, UCONN-AAUP at chenderson@uconnaaup.org