Who's Your Landlord? Costs and Consequences of Privatization

Given pending plans by EMU’s administration to privatize campus housing, EMU-AAUP, Faculty Senate, and EMUFT cosponsored a panel of distinguished speakers to discuss the costs and consequences of privatization.

The event was held via Zoom on November 16, 2021, at 3:30pm (EST). To view the recording of this webinar, register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/9z_BYCTWTOyfjsCItK-KedU905Hqpj5ata3FS9-9XimVGL7wIPKyNg1GATTvT5sO.Fyb_06yp0gTPd1iH

Discussion of the Origins and Ideology of Privatization (begins at 2:48)
Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University and author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Suzanne Gray, Faculty Senate President and Professor, University Library & Women's and Gender Studies, Eastern Michigan University

The Vanishing Public University:
The Causes and Consequences of Privatization at EMU (begins at 16:09)
Judith Kullberg, Professor of Political Science, Eastern Michigan University
(presentation slides)
The Community Impact of Privatization (begins at 30:32)
Edward Muir, Deputy Director, Research and Information Services, American Federation of Teachers
The Silencing of Voices:
Input Theater and the Privatization of Campus Housing at EMU (begins at 44:45)
Robert Carpenter, Ph.D., Professor of Educational Psychology, Eastern Michigan University
(presentation slides)
The Privatization of Everything (begins at 58:03)
Donald Cohen, Executive Director of In the Public Interest, a research, policy and strategy center focused on privatization and public goods, and co-author of the upcoming book, The Privatization of Everything .
Question and Answers (begins at 1:08:00)

Matt OchesNovember 9, 2021