{"357571":{"#nid":"357571","#data":{"type":"event","title":"HTS Speaker Series: Daniel Kleinman (University of Wisconsin, Madison)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022Blurring Cultures, Building Hybridity: Remaking a University Identity in a Time of Crisis\u0022\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere is desperation in the academic air.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Public institutions face regular budget shortfalls.\u0026nbsp; University researchers find that the US federal government has less to give, just as their need grows, and leading politicians question the value of liberal arts education, instead favoring the provision of market-ready skills for today\u2019s undergraduates.\u0026nbsp; In this context, institutions of higher education in the United States are grappling with identity redefinition.\u0026nbsp; With a new urgency, universities leaders and faculty are experimenting with business-friendly or \u2013relevant practices, and this is likely to alter how we understand the nature and purpose of higher education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this paper, Dr. Kleinman consider several \u003Cem\u003Ehybrid initiatives or experiments\u003C\/em\u003E undertaken in the last several years at the University of Wisconsin\u2014Madison that in some fashion blend academic and business codes and practices. \u0026nbsp;He seek to understand what these initiatives, which echo efforts across the United States, can tell us about the identity of US research universities in the second decade of the 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E century.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe School of History, Technology, and Society welcomes \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/soc\/faculty\/show-person.php?person_id=26\u0022\u003EDaniel Kleinman\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin,\u0026nbsp;as part of its spring speaker series. Topic:\u0026nbsp;\u0022Blurring Cultures, Building Hybridity: Remaking a University Identity in a Time of Crisis\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Blurring Cultures, Building Hybridity: Remaking a University Identity in a Time of Crisis\u0022"}],"uid":"27228","created_gmt":"2014-12-17 08:57:14","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:20:54","author":"LaDonna Bowen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-02-09T15:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-02-09T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-02-09T17:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-02-09 20:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-02-09 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-02-09 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.hts.gatech.edu\/index","title":"School of History, Technology, and Society"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:Kristie.Macrakis@hts.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristie Macrakis\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of History, Technology, and Society\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}