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After the Fall: Restoring the Faculty and Preserving Higher Education

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Please join the UMD History Department, UEA, and Education Minnesota as we welcome author and speaker, Benjamin Ginsberg to the UMD Marshall Performing Arts Center (MPAC) for his talk, "After the Fall: Restoring the Faculty and Preserving Higher Education."

Professor Benjamin Ginsberg examines the fallout of rampant administrative bloat that now plagues the nation's universities in his book, The Fall of the Faculty. Universities have added layers of new administrators and staff to their payroll while at the same time, slashing budgets, increasing tuition, and laying off full-time faculty at increasing numbers.

Ginsberg outlines how this treand can be reversed and how we can revamp the university system so that real educaotrs can regain their voice in curriculum policy.
 

Benjamin Ginsberg is a David Bernstein Professor, Department of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University. He is also the director of the Washington Center for the Study of American Government.

 
  • Keynote lecture - Thursday, September 26 - 7:00 p.m.
  • Reception immediately following keynote
  • Open to faculty and students - No cost
 
On Friday, students and faculty we will continue the conversation with a day of break-out sessions designed to reverse the "all-administrative university" trend. Click here to register for these events.
 
  • Friday Check-in 8:30 a.m. 
  • Sessions at 9 am, 11a.m. and 1p.m.
  • Round table discussion at 2:30 p.m.
 
Open to faculty and students — no cost for workshops
Lunch is $10