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Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 06:37:04 -0400
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Subject: Adjuncts: Call for participation ALISE 2014 Philadelphia
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Call for Participation
Part-Time and Adjuncts SIG Session
TITLE OF PROPOSED SESSION: Casualties and Collateral Damages: A Critical
Look at Educational Entrepreneurship.
2013 Convener: Dr. Catherine Closet-Crane, Adjunct, SLIS Kent State
University.
Co-Convener: Alexa Pearce, Librarian for Journalism, Media, Culture &
Communication, Bobst Library, New York University; Adjunct, SILS Pratt
Institute.
CONTACT: Dr. Catherine Closet-Crane, [log in to unmask] or
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DEADLINE:
Submissions are due by June 24, 2013, midnight.
Decisions will be communicated by July 24, 2013.
CALL
This proposed SIG session seeks to critically examine casualties and
collateral damages resulting from market driven educational
entrepreneurship in LIS education.
In this context, the term entrepreneurship refers to the development of
alternative business approaches in the market place. In the literature,
the term educational entrepreneurship has been used to describe the
invention of alternatives to traditional education aiming to "improve the
productivity, quality, and equity of American education" (Levin, 2006).
It is conventional knowledge that the positive outcomes of the
entrepreneurial spirit in higher education led LIS programs to harness
information and communication technologies to innovate with methods of
course delivery and attendance, online student participation and
faculty/student interaction, the design of online degree programs and
virtual campuses, and to open the doors of our programs of study to a
geographically distributed body of diverse students.
Benefits of educational entrepreneurship are obvious in particular for
administrators who rejoice over increased enrollment and for students who
revel in the opportunity to earn a degree online while working full time
and without uprooting their family. However, we have neglected to take a
step back and critically look at the effects of the entrepreneurial
approach in LIS education. The time has come to open the proverbial "can
of worms" and examine the possible negative outcomes of this approach. We
ask, "What are the unintended consequences of educational
entrepreneurship?"
We invite educators, administrators, and doctoral students interested in
participating in a panel discussion to submit a proposal. Our aim is to
constitute a panel of four participants who will be asked to present a
compelling critical statement in 10 minutes and afterwards answer
questions from the audience. Our hope is to be able to pod-cast the
session so that adjunct faculty unable to attend ALISE 2014 in person can
join in the discussion online.
PROPOSALS
Due date: June 24, 2013
To submit, go to EasyChair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2014parttimeadjuncts
Create an account and log-in. Select New Submission.
Submit a PDF document including:
1. a cover page with your name, affiliation, contact information, and
title of your proposal/ topic you are interested in discussing
2. an essay stating your critical perspective on the topic you are
interested in discussing in no more than 500 words.
TOPICS
Possible topics are suggested below; however we encourage proposals that
include other cogent topics.
- Effects of "academic capitalism" (Slaughter and Leslie, 1997; Slaughter
and Rhoades, 2004) on the hiring of LIS faculty.
- The end of tenure and the advent of renewable contracts for all?
- Labor conditions for educators outside the tenure track.
- Effects of educational entrepreneurship on student recruitment.
- How do we evaluate professional readiness of "virtually" socialized
librarians (MLS) and scholars (PhD) graduating from online MLS and PhD
programs?
- Are online communities of scholars, electronically mediated mentorship,
and advising of doctoral students adequate in the context of the doctoral
research project?
- Are we graduating too many students? Are MLS and PhD students prepared
for alternate careers outside libraries and academia?
References
Levin, H. M. (2006, January 11). "Why is educational entrepreneurship so
difficult?" Presentation at the 2005 American Enterprise Institute
Conference on "Educational Entrepreneurship." Retrieved from
http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/viewfile/download/54148/Why_is_educational_entrepreneurship_so_difficult.pdf
Slaughter, S. and Leslie, L. L. (1997). Academic Capitalism: Politics,
Policies, and the Entrepreneurial University. Baltimore, Md. & London,
U.K.: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Slaughter, S. and Rhoades, G. (2004). Academic Capitalism in the New
Economy. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
For information and questions please contact
Dr. Catherine Closet-Crane
Adjunct/Part-time Faculty
SLIS Kent State University
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