You are cordially invited to attend our session which will feature short presentation and a discussion with the audience moderated by Dr. Closet-Crane, Kent State University, 2013 SIG Convener.
WHEN? Wednesday January 22, 2:00 -3:30 pm.
WHERE? The conference hotel: DoubleTree
Philadelphia City Center.
WHO IS CONCERNED? All
LIS educators, administrators, practitioners, and students interested
in participating in a discussion about the unintended consequences of
educational entrepreneurship in LIS.
PRESENTERS
Catherine Closet-Crane, Kent State University
Intro. to the session, and A Succint Historical
Review of the Literature on Educational Entrepreneurship
Wilhelm Peekhaus, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Educational Entrepreneurship”:
The Latest Uncritical Buzz Words Signalling LIS’s Surrender to Capitalist Accumulation
Imperatives.
Timothy Dickey, Kent State University
Alternatives to
Tenure-track: State of the Art in LIS Education.
Zapopan
Martin Muela Meza and Jose Torres-Reyes, Nuevo Leon Autonomous University
The end of tenure and the advent of
renewable contracts for all in LIS.
E-copies of the presentations will be made available after the conference on the SIG website.