The Future of University: IHC theme for 2009-20010
The California Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960 was built on a foundation of state-supported higher education. That plan and its promise are now in jeopardy. This year, the IHC will explore the immediate UC budget crisis and its intersection with the long-standing “crisis” in the humanities in a series of events entitled The Future of the University. The series will include roundtable discussions on the future of graduate and undergraduate education, on publishing in the humanities, and on the role of the humanities in the corporatized university.

Interested parties should contact our program and events coordinator, Emily Zinn (ezinn@ihc.ucsb.edu), for more information. 

Upcoming events:

ROUNDTABLE: The Future of the University: The Future of Graduate Education in the Humanities
Thursday, October 29 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Does graduate education in the humanities have a future at the University of California, and if so what might it look like? In this roundtable, the first event in the IHC’s Future of the University series, UCSB faculty will discuss innovative graduate programs and initiatives that transcend disciplinary boundaries and train students for the new intellectual, professional, and economic landscape of the twenty-first century. Participants will include Mary Bucholtz (Linguistics), Susan Derwin (German, Slavic & Semitic Studies), Carl Gutierrez-Jones (English), Alan Liu (English), Patrick McCray (History), and Janet Walker (Film & Media Studies).
Sponsored by the IHC’s Future of the University series.

SYMPOSIUM: The Future of the University
Thursday, November 5 / 3:00-5:30 PM
3:00 PM Jennifer Washburn (author of University Inc.), "University Inc.: Why Public Knowledge and Public Education Are At Risk"
4:00 PM David Marshall (Executive Dean, College of Letters and Science, and Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, UCSB), "The Plight of the Public Research University"
5:00 Roundtable discussion
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

At a time when the California budget crisis has thrown the future of the University of California into question, it is appropriate to ask fundamental questions. Jennifer Washburn's book, University Inc., offered a prescient analysis of the project to turn the modern research university into a subsidiary of corporate America. UCSB Dean David Marshall is a national leader in making the case for value of the Arts and Humanities. The lectures and discussions of this IHC symposium will elicit a conversation on the increasing trend toward privatization, the imposition of business models on higher education, and the special challenges and responsibilities that public research universities face. Washburn and Marshall’s presentations will be followed by a roundtable discussion. The roundtable will feature William Warner (English), moderator; Jennifer Washburn; David Marshall; Mark Srednicki (Physics); Aranye Fradenburg (English); and Robert Williams (History of Art).
Sponsored by the IHC's Future of the University series and the Department of English.

 

 

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