[Peace] University INC: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education - Tues, May 3

[Laura Haber]

please forward widely:

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Jennifer Washburn 
author of University, INC.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education

Tuesday, May 3rd
7:00pm
South Rec Room of Allen Hall 
1005 W. Gregory, Urbana
(parking available in the garage across the street)

Free and open to the public!

Author JENNIFER WASHBURN is a freelance journalist and a fellow at the New America Foundation. She writes for Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, The Nation, and other national magazines. Formerly a fellow at the Open Society Institute, Ms. Washburn lives and works in New York. 

Drawing on extensive interviews and original research, Washburn paints an alarming picture of how the academy—the nation’s last refuge for independent thought—is being colonized by a market ideology that is fundamentally at odds with the university’s core academic values. At a time when universities try to convert professors into "content providers" and students into "consumers," when scientists neglect the long-term interests of their field in favor of short-term personal gain, Washburn's book UNIVERSITY, INC. offers a rigorous and important analysis of the deteriorating state of our higher education system today.

Laura Haber
Program Coordinator of Unit One
University of Illinois
68 Allen Hall (MC 050)
1005 W. Gregory
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-2317
lhaber at admin.housing.uiuc.edu

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