Democratizing the University: Are Tenure-Stream Faculty for or Against?

Professor Christopher Newfield is perhaps the U.S.’s foremost scholar in “university studies.”   Chris is Professor in the English Department at UC Santa Barbara, and  is a co-organizer of the important and crucial website “Remaking the University” (utotherescue.blogspot.com).  His books on the university include The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them (2018) and Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class (2011).   This meeting outlined Chris’s sense of the state of university politics in the current period, his ideas about tactics and strategies, and a focus on how to carry on university struggles in a period of austerity. To view the video of this event, click HERE.