Event Host: Humanities Institute
Short Description: Marc Bousquet's lecture, "Monetizing the Student," will present preliminary research from his new book of that title, under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press. How do institutions capitalize on student time, in the classroom and beyond? Are there reasonable, ethical limits to the ways that institutions benefit from student debt, tuition, extracurricular activities, and the like? Are not-for-profits intrinsically more ethical in their pursuit of revenue than all for-profit institutions?
Marc Bousquet is an Associate Professor of Film and Media at Emory University. He is the author of the well-known critique of managed higher education, How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (NYU Press,2008) and is preparing a sequel, Monetizing the Student, under contract to Johns Hopkins University Press. He is a frequent contributor to The Chronicle of Higher Education, co-editor of The Politics of Information: The Electronic Mediation of Social Change (Alt-X, 2004), and coeditor of Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers (SIUP, 2004). He founded Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labor and serves on the editorial board of several journals, such as as AAUP's Academe.
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