Coalition for Action in Higher-Ed - Who Rules the Academy (and How To Fight Back)?

"Today, higher education in the U.S. is subject to an unprecedented wave of attacks from external as well as internal sources. This panel will identify several of those sources and suggest ways to combat them. Among others, topics to be addressed include what we might learn from the labor movement about how to resist the finance-sector executives who dominate many governing boards; the autocratic legal form of the American academy and how it might be reconstituted; and the failure of strategies aimed at securing compromise solutions with the university's rulers as well as what we should demand now.

Introduction and moderator: Constance Penley (Council of University of California Faculty Associations)

Speakers: Amy Offner (University of Pennsylvania), Christopher Newfield (University of California, Santa Barbara and Independent Social Research Foundation, London), and Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn (Whitman College)"