Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, the Center for European Studies, and the Global Higher Education Program.
An Interdisciplinary Symposium with Michael Bernard-Donals (English and Jewish Studies) and Adam Nelson (Education Policy Studies and History).
Organized by B. Venkat Mani (Professor of German and World Literature)
Higher Education in the US, but also worldwide has become prohibitively expensive for large sections of the society. The education sector has also come under tremendous pressure and scrutiny. Issues at stake include, but are not limited to utility for future employment of students in volatile economies, investment in wholistic educational experiences of next generations, organizational structures which are increasingly top-heavy, and an intellectual landscape that often dependent on political landscape. These issues may seem new to us, but they have longer histories, and are not unique to the US. At this moment in higher education, two scholars from UW-Madison have written about these histories centralizing notions of “Public Good” and the current and historical “Vulnerabilities” of higher education. This event spotlights these books:
Respondents:
Weijia Li, Clinical Professor, Director of Global Higher Education MS Program, School of Education, Affiliate Faculty, German Program and CGES, UW-Madison.
Madhu Sahni, Center of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Hans Schildermans, Institut für Bildungswissenschaft, Universität Wien, Austria.