Beyond Bailouts: Children of the Recession and the Challenge of Higher Education
November 9, 2009
Henry Giroux, an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award author, will give a free, public lecture on “Beyond Bailouts: Children of the Recession and the Challenge of Higher Education” at 6 p.m., Thursday, November 12, in USM’s University Events Room, Glickman Family Library, Portland. His presentation is the second of four of the USM’s College of Education and Human Development’s 2009-2010 Visiting Libra Scholar series on the “Teaching and Leading in the 21st Century.” For more information, call 780-5373 or see
http://www.usm.maine.edu/cehd/About-Us/Achievements/Faculty/Henry-Giroux.html
Giroux holds the Global Television Network Professorship at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. His primary research areas are cultural and youth studies, popular culture, social theory, and the politics of higher and public education. In Giroux’s most recent book, “Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability?” he addresses issues that “points to the changing conditions youth now face in the new millennium and the degree to which they have been put at risk by reactionary social policies, institutional mismanagement and shifting cultural attitudes. While youth have always represented an ambiguous category, they have within the last 30 years been under assault in ways that are entirely new, and they now face a world that is far more dangerous than at any other time in recent history. And these new conditions demand a new set of categories and vocabulary for understanding the changing problems youth face within the relentless expansion of a global market society, one that punishes all youth by treating them largely as commodities.”
Giroux is a 1967 graduate of Gorham State College, a predecessor school of USM.
Throughout the year, USM’s College of Education and Human Development also will host visiting scholars Stephen Brookfield (May 19-20, 2010) and Sonia Nieto (June 2-3, 2010). Margaret Wheatley visited in October. The Libra Series was established to attract well-known scholars to Maine’s public universities. An endowment created by the late Elizabeth B. Noyce supports the series.
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