Description: Panelists explore how we might disrupt higher education’s prestige economy. Can we envision a future for higher education that prioritizes access and the public good rather than exclusion? What would it mean to collectively refuse to buy into the prestige economy? How might such a refusal change our relationship to our students, our research, our institutions, and our public(s)? What other economies might replace it?

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Speakers

Nicky Agate, Columbia U

Veronica Barrera-Kolb, Seattle Central C

Zhenzhen He-Weatherford, Bellevue C

Katina Rogers, Graduate Center, City U of New York

Irene Yoon, LA Review of Books

Presider

Stacy Hartman, Graduate Center, City U of New York