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JUST UNIVERSITIES: CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING CONFRONTS CORPORATIZED HIGHER EDUCATION
Roosevelt House is pleased to present this special panel discussion concerning Gerald J. Beyer’s newly published book Just Universities: Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education as part of the 48th annual conference of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. This special panel is co-sponsored by Commonweal Magazine.
The theme of the National Center’s conference is Higher Education, Collective Bargaining, and the Biden Administration. Click here to register for the entire May 17-May 20 virtual conference. During his first 100 days, President Joe Biden’s statements, appointments, and actions have clearly demonstrated an intent to be the most pro-union president since FDR.
This panel will be a roundtable review of the newly published book by Villanova University Christian Ethics Associate Professor Gerald Beyer. Among the topics examined in Professor Beyer’s book are labor rights, the status of adjunct faculty, unionization of faculty at Catholic institutions, institutional financial investments, environmental and climate justice, and issues of inclusion based on class, race, gender, and sexual identity. The panelists, drawing from their respective experiences as administrators, educators, and students, will discuss how Catholic social teaching has the potential to combat the deleterious effects of the corporatization of U.S. higher education.
Speakers:
Donna T. Haverty-Stacke, moderator is a Professor of History at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she teaches courses in U.S. cultural, urban, labor, and legal history. Haverty-Stacke is the author of The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist; Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR; America’s Forgotten Holiday; May Day and Nationalism, 1867 – 1960. She received her PhD in History from Cornell University in 2003.
Gerald J. Beyer is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Villanova University and author of Just Universities: Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education. His other publications include the book Recovering Solidarity: Lessons from Poland's Unfinished Revolution and numerous articles in outlets such as Journal of Catholic Social Thought, Heythrop Journal, Journal of Religious Ethics, Notre Dame Journal of Ethics and Public Policy, Ethos, Political Theology, America, Commonweal, and National Catholic Reporter.
Patricia McGuire has been president of Trinity since 1989. Previously, she was the assistant dean for development and external affairs at Georgetown University Law Center where she was also an adjunct professor of law. She began her career after law school as the project director for the Street Law clinical program at Georgetown. She serves on a number of boards including the Consortium of Universities, Cafritz Foundation, College Catholic Charities DC, Faith in the Future Foundation, and the Ameritas Holding Company. Her prior board service includes United Educators, the American Council on Education, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, the Meyer Foundation, the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region, and numerous other organizations.
Lily Ryan coordinates communications and programming at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and with the Bargaining for the Common Good network. Her interest in labor began as a student activist with the Georgetown Solidarity Committee where she organized locally with campus workers and campus unions and on international campaigns with the United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) network.
Mary-Antoinette Smith is a Professor at Seattle University. Her areas of specialization are 18th and 19th Century British Literature, and she also teaches courses in African-American Literature, Intercultural/Intersectional Literature, and Engaged Gazing for Social Justice. Dr. Smith's pedagogy and scholarship promote praxis-centered race, class, gender/sexuality theory. Her publications include the book Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species and articles titled It Takes a Village to Rear a Word Weaver: Memoir of a Black Catholic Girlhood in Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism and Brontë’s Inferno: An Intertextual Structural Analysis of Edward Rochester’s Redemptive Fire Baptism in Jane Eyre. Her current scholarly book project is titled Her Fierce Faith: Introducing Ellen Tarry (African-American Catholic Convert and Pre-Civil Rights Interracial Justice Advocate). Dr. Smith also serves as Executive Director of the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education (NAWCHE).