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<div>PLS NOTE THAT THE SALON WILL BE HELD AT FRIENDS HOUSE
60 LOWTHER STREET (not the Tranzac where they have been
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<div>The “List” Presents a Salon on:<br>
<font size="6">“Follow the Money:”<br>
On the Corporatization of Higher Education<br>
OR<br>
HUNGER GAMES FOR ACADEMICS<br>
</font><font size="4">Musical guest: Marcia Chum<br>
Speakers:<br>
JP Hornick (George Brown College, CAAT-A Divisional
Exec, OPSEU Local 556)<br>
Paul Hamel (Faculty of Medicine, University of
Toronto)</font><br>
Moderator: Alejandro Paz<br>
October 25th, 7pm-9:30pm<br>
Friends House - Meeting Rm<br>
60 Lowther Street<br>
(near Bloor & Bedford)</div>
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<div>Questions:<br>
(1) How has the introduction of corporate business
models transformed higher education?<br>
(2) How have deepening forms of commodification and
competition impacted the conditions of work?<br>
(3) What kinds of organizing efforts might open up
alternatives and transform Colleges and Universities?</div>
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<div>*JP Hornick is the Chair of the current Colleges of
Applied Arts & Technology-Academic (CAAT-A)
bargaining team that<br>
represents Ontario College faculty. JP is also the
coordinator of the School of Labour at George Brown
College,<br>
member of the CAAT-A Divisional Executive, and Chief
Steward in OPSEU Local 556. In addition to teaching
labour<br>
studies courses, JP is a long-time social activist and
has worked in the Ontario college system since 1997 as a
contract<br>
and full-time professor. An experienced educator and
steward, JP is committed to bringing a socially
progressive<br>
labour perspective to students and workers through
workshops, training, and community events.<br>
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<div>*Paul Hamel is Professor in the Department of
Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology in the faculty of
Medicine at the<br>
University of Toronto, and will speak to some historical
aspects of corporatization at the university.<br>
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<div>*This term the focus of the List is on critical
engagements with the current trajectory of higher
education, while our<br>
spring programming will look more towards alternative
initiatives and visions. "Follow the Money": On The<br>
Corporatization of Higher Education aims to open up
discussion about corporatization and the impact of
neoliberalism<br>
on universities and colleges.<br>
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