{"id":100,"date":"2014-09-04T23:04:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T23:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwaaup\/wordpress\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2020-03-22T18:43:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T18:43:12","slug":"stand-up-for-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwaaup\/wordpress\/higher-education-financing-strategies\/stand-up-for-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand Up for Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer 2014 <a title=\"report\" href=\"http:\/\/standup4education.org\/latest\/new-report-washingtons-tax-system-corporate-welfare-create-educational-deficit\/\">report<\/a> on education finance reform in Washington State from SEIU 925 campaign, Stand Up for Education.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-636\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwaaup\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AAUP-annual-meeting-poster-2018-final-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwaaup\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AAUP-annual-meeting-poster-2018-final-copy.jpg 621w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwaaup\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AAUP-annual-meeting-poster-2018-final-copy-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday January 26, 2018: annual meeting<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.ucla.edu\/faculty\/michael-meranze\"> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.ucla.edu\/faculty\/michael-meranze\">Michael Meranze<\/a> (UCLA history professor) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.english.ucsb.edu\/people\/newfield-christopher\">Chris Newfield<\/a>  spoke to our 100th anniversary annual meeting about the future of  higher public education in the US. It was a call to action! It\u2019s up to  faculty to defend our beloved public universities, to protect them from  privatization, skyrocketing tuition, and control by  philanthrocapitalists. See the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K1K0El17q8w\">Video here! <\/a><\/strong> In his new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu\/content\/great-mistake\"><em>The Great Mistake<\/em><\/a>,  Newfield, argues higher ed has suffered under the private-sector model,  which suggests universities should be more like businesses. Newfield  combines firsthand experience with expert analysis to show that private  funding cannot replace public funding or improve efficiency.  Privatization has increased costs and gravely damaged the university\u2019s  value to society. Meranze and Newfield are authors of a blog, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/\">Remaking the University<\/a>.\u201d Michael in the\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>\u00a0on democracy and interpretation:\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/remaking-the-university-geoffrey-galt-harpham-on-democracy-and-interpretation-in-the-united-states\/\">https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/remaking-the-university-geoffrey-galt-harpham-on-democracy-and-interpretation-in-the-united-states\/<\/a> Chris and Cameron Sublett in\u00a0<em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em>\u00a0on whether online reinforces the color line\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2018\/03\/20\/racial-implications-californias-proposed-online-university-opinion\">http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2018\/03\/20\/racial-implications-californias-proposed-online-university-opinion<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer 2014 report on education finance reform in Washington State from SEIU 925 campaign, Stand Up for Education. Friday January 26, 2018: annual meeting Michael Meranze (UCLA history professor) and Chris Newfield spoke to our 100th anniversary annual meeting about the future of higher public education in the US. It was a call to action! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwaaup\/wordpress\/higher-education-financing-strategies\/stand-up-for-education\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stand Up for Education<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":93,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwaaup\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwaaup\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwaaup\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwaaup\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwaaup\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwaaup\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwaaup\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions\/714"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwaaup\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwaaup\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}