Dr. Brian Connolly will discuss the state of public higher education in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the underlying problems the crisis has exposed.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has already had a transformative effect on higher education in the United States, with faculty layoffs, massive budget cuts, college closings, and the rapid conversion of courses to remote learning. This acute crisis, however, exposes the problems that have marked higher education for several decades now: imposed austerity, privatization, and the corporatization of the university, to name a few of the many issues. This presentation looks at the state of public higher education in the United States in light of the pandemic and suggests that this is the time to move away from the policies and administrative decisions that have led us here and instead reinvigorate the public university as a public good.
Brian Connolly is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (2014) as well as numerous articles and essays in venues ranging
from Feminist Theory to the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the editor of History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History.
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