UW's Kleinman to Deliver Commercialization of Higher Education Talk Friday at UWM

UW-Madison Professor in Community and Environmental Sociology Daniel Kleinman will deliver a talk at UW-Milwaukee this Friday called "Uneven Commercialization: Contradiction and Conflict in the Identity and Practices of American Universities."  The discussion focuses on the "widespread claims about the commercialization of higher education," which Kleinman argues are "overbroad."

Kleinman focuses on two measures in his talk, "the treatment of students as consumers and the use of strategic planning by academic administrators."  He also indicates that commercial practices vary based on factors like differing institutions, time, and social position.

The talk will be hosted by the Center for 21st Century Studies and will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, December 2, 2011 in Curtin Hall room 118.  The event is free and open to the public.  Additionally, those who cannot attend may view the talk live on the C21 Ustream channel.

For more information, refer to the Center for 21st Century Studies site.

Tomorrow at UWM: Geography/GIS Symposium

A “Geography/GIS Symposium” will be held at UW-Milwaukee on Thursday, November 17 at the Golda Meir Library on campus.  The event is sponsored by the UWM Department of Geography.


The schedule of events for Thursday has two prominent scholars in the geography field hosting talks in the afternoon.  At 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Professor John P. Wilson (University of Southern California) will discuss "The Spatial Sciences, Society, Environment and Health."  Distinguished Professor Mei-Po Kwan (Ohio State University) will host "On Linking Health and Geography" at 2:30 p.m. Thursday.


The symposium continues Friday, November 18 with a general meeting for students, faculty, and staff who are interested.  This meeting will be held at 2:30 p.m. in Bolton Hall, room 262 on the UWM campus.


See the Geography/GIS Symposium site for more information.

"The Framing Years" Talks Policy in the Early Internet Years

Sandra Braman, professor in the UWM Department of Communications will deliver a talk Friday, November 4 on the issues the designers of the Internet had to think through, such as privacy and intellectual property rights.

In "The Framing Years: Policy Fundamentals in the Internet Design Process, 1969-1979," Braman will discuss how positions on these issues were "framed by conceptualizations of the nature of the network, goals to be served by the network, the nature of the users and uses of the network, and the design criteria that served as policy principles developed during the early years of the design process."

As part of the Center for Information Policy Research's "brown bag research lunch" session, held multiple times throughout each semester, "The Framing Years" will share the stage with other formal and informal discussions Friday.  The goal of these luncheons is to offer a space for faculty, staff, and students interested in information policy and ethics to share both finished and in-progress research.

In addition to other talks, "The Framing Years" will be held in Bolton Hall, room 521 at UW-Milwaukee, 1:30 - 3:00pm on Friday, November 4.