The Ethics of Graduate Education in the 21st Century Academy

Event Date: 

Saturday, October 10, 2015 - 4:00pm to 5:45pm

Event Location: 

  • Sheraton Centre
  • Birchwood Ballroom
  • American Studies Association
  • Toronto
  • Talk

Conference Title: American Studies Association - The Reproduction of Misery and the Ways of Resistance

Panel Title: Committee on Graduate Education: The Ethics of Graduate Education in the 21st Century Academy

Panelists:

Roshanak Kheshti, University of California, San Diego (CA)
Chris Newfield, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
Lisa Guerrero, Washington State University, Pullman (WA)
Regina N. Bradley, Kennesaw State University (GA)
Scott Poulson-Bryant, Harvard University (MA)
Malathi Iyengar, University of California, San Diego (CA)

How viable is the traditional model of graduate education in the humanities and social sciences? Is our approach to graduate education an ethical one? What must change, and where must it change, in order for us to be truly attendant to the crisis in graduate education and its relationship to the larger crisis in higher education? What strategies can we begin to implement immediately, and how can we conceive of transformative graduate education in the long term?