The Video Activist Network (VAN) announces the arrival of the McCollege Tour to San Francisco, spotlighting the growing corporatization of higher education.
- Combined endowments of over $12 Billion dollars...
- Board of Regents members who are also CEOs and lawyers for top Fortune 500 companies...
- Downsizing, cutbacks, and the "bottom-line"...
Welcome to the University of Texas-Austin, the nation's largest public university, and Yale University, the nation's most respected private college, where big business is muscling in on education, student power, and worker's rights.
What is lost in the transaction when education and commerce collide? That is the central question addressed from two radically different points of view in UNIVERSITY INC. and THE SUBTEXT OF A YALE EDUCATION, new documentaries that investigate the corporatization of higher education.
FEATURED VIDEOS:
UNIVERSITY INC. (54 min, 1999) is Kyle Henry's biting investigation into the closing of the Union Film Program at UT-Austin, a paradigm not only for the new corporate university order but also the state of student activism. .
In SUBTEXT OF A YALE EDUCATION (31 min, 1999), Laura Dunn follows custodial labor strikes at Yale, capturing student's indifference, the administration's cold-blooded maneuvering, and the striker's resolve.
TIME/DATE: 8:00 PM on Thursday, December 2, 1999
PLACE: Artists' Television Access (ATA), 992 Valencia @ 21st Street, San Francisco
ADMISSION: $5 - $10 donation requested. No one turned away for lack of funds.
CONTACT: the VAN Hotline: (415) 789-8484 or visit the Artists' Television Access calendar
Visit the McCollege Tour website.
Screenings are on the first Thursday of every month, starting at 8:00 p.m. at the Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia @ 21st Street in San Francisco. All are welcome. No one turned away for lack of funds. If you would like to get involved with VAN, come to a screening and introduce yourself, explore the website, or e-mail us.