The Corporate University, Method and Critical Thought
The Center for Culture, Technology and Work (formerly, The Center for
Cultural Studies) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
(CUNY) will be organizing a one-day symposium and dialogue on Friday,
November 3, 2000, from 10-6 (365 Fifth Ave, NY, NY. Room 9202-9203) to
discuss recent changes in the university and its consequences for the
university's relationship to knowledge. We will bring together scholars from
diverse disciplines and backgrounds to discuss how some of the recent
economic changes in the university, particularly increased focused on profit,
relations with industry, vocational learning, rapidly expanding part time
labor force (i.e. adjuncts, TA's), general "cutbacks" in support for research
and resources, etc., are related to kinds of knowledge produced in the
university as well as whether they affect the possibility of developing a
critical and rigorous intellectual tradition within the university.
10:00-11:45 Roundtable Discussion: The Crisis in the University
Stanley Aronowitz, Director of Center for the Study Culture, Work and
Technology
Barbara Bowen, President, PSC, CUNY
Mary Burgan, American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
Patricia Clough, Director, Women's Studies Certificate Program
Larry Hanley, City College
Louise Mirrer, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, CUNY
Bernard Sohmer, Chair, Faculty Senate, CUNY
Alisa Solomon, Director, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)
12:00-1:30 Panel One: The Corporate University and the future of Intellectual
life
Stanley Aronowitz, What Does the Corporate Research University Look Like? CUNY
Mike Menser, Respondent, CUNY
Neil Smith, Who Rules the Sausage Factory? Fighting the Corporatization of
Geography, CUNY
Gary Rhoades, Who Rules the Sausage Factory? Fighting the Corporatization of
Geography, University of Arizona
1:30-2:15 Break for Lunch
2:15-3:45 Panel Two: The University and the Production of Knowledge
Robert Ausch, Foundations and the Methodolization of the Social Sciences, CUNY
Clyde Barrow, What is to be Undone? The Corporate University and Academic
Efficiency, University of Massachusetts
Russell Jacoby, The Falling Rate of Intelligence, UCLA
Ellen Schrecker, The McCarthyist University, Yeshiva University
4:00-5:30 Panel Three: Progressive Thought and Academia
Patricia Clough, The Speeds of Critical Thought, Director of Women's Studies,
CUNY
Lisa Duggan, After Identity Politics? Knowledge and Activism Within and
Beyond the University, New York University
Peter Haegerty, Psychology and the Limits of Identity, CUNY
5:30-6:30 Reception
for more info contact Robert Ausch, robqrdd@aol.com
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