Name: Labor and the Struggle for Higher Education
Start: 2025-07-04T15:00:00-0500
End: 2025-07-04T16:30:00-0500

Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

TBA

Repression of student protests on campuses and existential defunding threats from the White House have combined to change the face of higher education and call into question its very future. Join us for a discussion of the current state of the movement to save and transform higher education through the power of labor and community activism.

Speakers

Jason Wozniak

Jason Wozniak is associate professor and Coordinator of the Transformative Education and Social Change program at West Chester University. He is a researcher and organizer with Debt Collective, and Founder and Co-Director of The Latin American Philosophy of Education Society (LAPES... Read More →

Chenjerai Kumanyika

Chenjerai Kumanyika teaches nonfiction audio journalism and podcasting at New York University. He is the co-creator, co-executive producer and co-host of Uncivil, a podcast on the Civil War and is the creator and host of the new podcast, Empire City, an eight-part narrative series... Read More →

Gabriel Winant

Gabriel Winant is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago, a member of the executive council of AAUP/AFT Local 6741, a member of the Dissent editorial board, and author of The Next Shift... Read More →