[Fdu] THIS THURSDAY: Oct 25 Salon: Follow the Money, or Hunger Games for Academics, 7-9:30

[Cynthia Wright]

PLS NOTE THAT THE SALON WILL BE HELD AT FRIENDS HOUSE 60 LOWTHER STREET 
(not the Tranzac where they have been held in the past)

The “List” Presents a Salon on:
“Follow the Money:”
On the Corporatization of Higher Education
OR
HUNGER GAMES FOR ACADEMICS
Musical guest: Marcia Chum
Speakers:
JP Hornick (George Brown College, CAAT-A Divisional Exec, OPSEU Local 556)
Paul Hamel (Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto)
Moderator: Alejandro Paz
October 25th, 7pm-9:30pm
Friends House - Meeting Rm
60 Lowther Street
(near Bloor & Bedford)

contact: openletterutfaculty at gmail.com 
<mailto:openletterutfaculty at gmail.com>

Questions:
(1) How has the introduction of corporate business models transformed 
higher education?
(2) How have deepening forms of commodification and competition impacted 
the conditions of work?
(3) What kinds of organizing efforts might open up alternatives and 
transform Colleges and Universities?

*JP Hornick is the Chair of the current Colleges of Applied Arts & 
Technology-Academic (CAAT-A) bargaining team that
represents Ontario College faculty. JP is also the coordinator of the 
School of Labour at George Brown College,
member of the CAAT-A Divisional Executive, and Chief Steward in OPSEU 
Local 556. In addition to teaching labour
studies courses, JP is a long-time social activist and has worked in the 
Ontario college system since 1997 as a contract
and full-time professor. An experienced educator and steward, JP is 
committed to bringing a socially progressive
labour perspective to students and workers through workshops, training, 
and community events.

*Paul Hamel is Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine & 
Pathobiology in the faculty of Medicine at the
University of Toronto, and will speak to some historical aspects of 
corporatization at the university.

*This term the focus of the List is on critical engagements with the 
current trajectory of higher education, while our
spring programming will look more towards alternative initiatives and 
visions. "Follow the Money": On The
Corporatization of Higher Education aims to open up discussion about 
corporatization and the impact of neoliberalism
on universities and colleges.

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