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Topics to include: Resisting Corporatization and Militarization, Full Funding for Public Education, Directed Community Investments, Social Responsibility, Campus/Community Partnerships, Campus Democracy, Debt Forgiveness, Tuition Abolition, and much more!

 

Hosted by . . . your campus! A nominating process will be announced soon.

 

In recent years, campus-based organizers have staged a series of significant mobilizations across the United States, including this just past year, long-term building occupations at The New School and New York University in New York City. Until recently, however, the rising tide of campus-based action involved only limited coordination on a national or international level. And despite the efforts of progressive activists, students, faculty, and other campus workers, conditions in and around higher education campuses continue to worsen: Corporatization is on the rise everywhere; military recruiters have increased their aggressive presence on campuses, often backed by administration and security officials when challenged; fees and tuition are skyrocketing, putting higher education out of reach for the working people whose taxes fund public institutions; campus labor is under attack; youth of color and women are experiencing the impacts of recent efforts to eliminate affirmative action; destructive military adventures abroad are depriving campuses of resources and students; immigrants and the children of recent immigrants face attempts to shut them out of higher education; and the list goes on.

On October 20, 2005, several hundred undergraduate, graduate, campus labor, faculty, and community organizers hailing from nine states and two Canadian provinces, met at the first Democratizing Education Convention at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Among other things, the convention created a new network of higher education organizers, the Democratizing Education Network (DEN).

 

Since the founding convention, the DEN has supported the spread and growth of the Tent State University movement, student unionism, and increased networking among students, faculty, staff, and community members around national and international education issues. This next Democratizing Education Convention, planned the winter of 2009-2010, will be your best opportunity to connect with other live-wire activists and organizers concerned about the future of higher education.

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Areas of Focus:

Affirmative Action, Books not Bombs, Campus Democracy, Civic Education, Debt Forgiveness, Democratizing Education (Liberty Tree), Free Speech, Full Funding, Corporatization, Right to Organize

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