The Evisceration of a Public University / Lisa Corrigan

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🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Professor of communications and director of gender studies at the University of Arkansas Lisa M. Corrigan joins Chuck to discuss the neoliberal dismantling of the University of West Virginia--a harbinger of a return to a tuition-based, legacy-first, exclusive educational order for all of American higher education. Check out her article, "The Evisceration of a Public University," in The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wvu-cuts-higher-education/ Support This is Hell! at www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	Pressure's high just to stay alive.
0:05.0	Because the heat is on.
0:08.0	So the heat is on.
0:11.0	Whoo! So the name of the song is Axel F. Who is the musician?
0:17.0	Glenfray of the Eagles.
0:22.0	Oh God! Yip! Glenfray of the Eagles.
0:22.8	Oh God!
0:24.0	Yeah! The worst of the horrible Eagles.
0:28.0	Why isn't the intro play?
0:31.0	Oh, there it is is nice as fun.
0:37.2	This is hell.
0:41.8	Behind every great fortune lies a great crime because this is hell and there's definitely a fortune being made in the crime that we will be discussing today.
0:54.0	There is a right wing war on education taking place right now.
1:01.0	No, I'm not talking about Goose stepping Florida Governor Ron
1:05.4	Desantis and his book bands which are certain to turn into book burning soon staging
1:10.6	what I can only assume would be his own musical version of Fahrenheit 451.
1:16.0	Sure, he's part of the problem, but the Florida governor is far from the greatest challenge facing the present and future of higher education in the United States.
1:24.2	We are going to be speaking in a few minute.
1:27.1	Well, let me just say that unsurprisingly, neoliberalism also arms the war on education, putting
1:32.4	profits before pupils.
1:34.0	It's happening all over the country.
1:36.0	Consulting firms enforcing neoliberalism go into states and find
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