Labor and Public Higher Education: Campus Workers, Working Students, and the Public Good

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, three hours. Introduction to critical scholarship on the relationship between capitalism and higher education in the U.S., and to campus workers and their attempts to use collective action to change higher education. Survey of critical university studies scholarship on how and why the U.S. higher education system may reproduce more than ameliorate social inequality. Introduction to staff and academic worker unions at the University of California, and their visions for public higher education. Students research the current use of artificial intelligence in higher education, and develop ideas for organizing college students and/or workers to determine how artificial intelligence is used. P/NP or letter grading.