September 24
Annual Ethics and Public Policy Symposium:
How 'Corporate' Should a University Be?
8:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
(Part of the Utah Democracy Project)
http://research.uvu.edu/lavange/corporateuniversity.pdf
This symposium will address the application of the organizational model of
business in public higher education.
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Session 1
The Threats to Academic Freedom
Cary Nelson, President, American Associate of University Professors, and
Professor of English and Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of
IllinoisChampaign
Introduction by Scott Abbott, Professor of Philosophy and Integrated
Studies, UVU
8:30-9:45 a.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
Session 2
The University Has a Bottom Line, All Right, But What Is It?
L. Jackson Newell, Professor Emeritus of History and Former Dean of Liberal
Education, University of Utah, and President Emeritus, Deep Springs College
Introduction by David R. Keller, Director, Center for the Study of Ethics,
and Professor of Philosophy, UVU
10-11:15 a.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
Session 3
University Governance in an Entrepreneurial Age
Susan Olson, Professor of Political Science, Associate Vice President for
Faculty, University of Utah
Introduction by Jill Jasperson, Associate Director, Center for the Study of
Ethics, and Associate Professor of Legal Studies, UVU
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
Session 4
Plenary Panel Discussion
Cary Nelson, President, American Associate of University Professors
L. Jackson Newell, Professor Emeritus of History and Former Dean of Liberal
Education, University of Utah
Susan Olson, Professor of Political Science, Associate Vice President for
Faculty, University of Utah
William A. Sederburg, Commissioner of Higher Education, State of Utah
Moderator: Elaine Englehardt, Special Assistant to the President, and
Distinguished Professor of Ethics, UVU
1-2:15 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
PARTICIPANT ACADEMIC BIOGRAPHIES
Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson received a B.A. from Antioch College in Ohio (1967) and a Ph.D.
from the University of Rochester in New York (1970). Since the fall of 1970
he has taught modern poetry and literary theory at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts
and Sciences and Professor of English. His campus work has included a
decades-long project of building up the holdings in modern poetry and the
Spanish Civil War in the library¹s Rare Book and Special Collections
Department.
His twenty-five authored or edited books include The Incarnate Word:
Literature as Verbal Space (1973), Our Last First Poets: Vision and History
in Contemporary American Poetry (1981), Marxism and the Interpretation of
Culture (1987), Cultural Studies (1992), Higher Education Under Fire:
Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities (1994), Will Work for
Food: Academic Labor in Crisis (1997), Academic Keywords: A Devil¹s
Dictionary for Higher Education (1999), Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the
Poetry of the American Left (2001), and Office Hours : Activism and Change
in the Academy (2004). He is the author of over 100 essays, including a
number published in Academe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside
Higher Education.
Cary Nelson took office as the 49th president of the American Association of
University Professors in June 2006.
Jack Newell
Jack Newell is Professor Emeritus at the University of Utah and President
Emeritus of Deep Springs College in California, where he served from 1995 to
2004. He continues to write and teach social ethics and educational
leadership philosophy at the University of Utah, and American history in the
Venture Program for adults seeking a second chance at the Horizonte Center
in Salt Lake City. He also serves on the boards for the Utah Humanities
Council, the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, the McMurrin Lectures, the
Withrow Lectures, and the Virgin River Land Preservation Association.
Newell pursued his undergraduate degree at Deep Springs College in
California and Ohio State University, earned his M.A. At Duke University in
American and European history, and his Ph.D. at Ohio State in the history
and philosophy of European and American universities. He taught at Clemson
University, Deep Springs College, and the University of New Hampshire before
moving to the University of Utah. He has held visiting professorships in
England, Canada, and New Zealand.
>From 1974 to 1990, Newell served as dean and principal architect of the
unusual university-wide liberal arts and sciences program at the University
of Utah. Under his leadership, the University launched and two distinguished
professorships, the McMurrin Professorship for visiting scholars and the
University Professorship for U. of U. faculty.
Newell has published over 120 articles and essays, and written or edited
nine books and monographs, including Matters of Conscience: Conversations
with Sterling McMurrin on Philosophy, Education, and Religion (1996), a
biographical study of the philosopher and social critic who served as United
States Commissioner of Education in the administration of President John F.
Kennedy. Among his other authored or edited works are Creating
Distinctiveness: Lessons from Uncommon Colleges and Universities (1994), A
History of Thought and Practice in Educational Administration (1987), and
The Students of Deep Springs College with Michael Smith and William T.
Vollmann (2000). Newell served as editor of The Review of Higher Education
from 1986 to 1991, and as co-editor of the scholarly journal Dialogue: A
Journal of Mormon Thought from 1982 to 1987.
Susan Olson
Susan Olson has been a faculty member in the political science department at
the University of Utah since 1986 and the Associate Vice President for
Faculty since 2000. Her teaching and research focus on courts and the legal
system, primarily in the United States. Dr. Olson has taught Judicial
Process, Law and Social Change, Constitutional Law, Introduction to Law and
Politics, and Introduction to American Government. Her research focuses
broadly on the ways that the legal system aggregates and transforms personal
concerns into broader issues of public policy. She has published numerous
scholarly articles and two books, most recently Native Vote: American
Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote with Daniel McCool and
Jennifer Robinson in 2007.
Dr. Olson¹s background in law and politics supports her administrative work,
as she oversees changes to academic policies and responds to disputes
involving faculty members. Dr. Olson also coordinates the faculty
appointment and promotion and tenure processes and organizes leadership
development programs for faculty and department chairs. She represents the
Academic Affairs administration on the Academic Senate Executive Committee
and advocates for the faculty as a member of the Senior Vice President¹s
academic leadership team.
William A. Sederburg
William A. Sederburg began serving as Utah¹s Commissioner of Higher
Education on August 19, 2008. Prior to this position, he was president of
Utah Valley University (until June 30, 2008 Utah Valley State College). He
is active in many community and regional groups and, as a political science
major, is very interested in state politics.
Commissioner Sederburg earned a bachelor¹s degree from Mankato State
University in Minnesota, and a master¹s degree and a doctorate (both in
political science) from Michigan State University. He made Michigan his home
for 20 years, during which he served in the Michigan State Senate and in
various education capacities.
Commissioner Sederburg taught and lectured at several colleges in Michigan
before becoming the 16th president of Ferris State University in Big Rapids
in 1994. Under his leadership, Ferris State experienced a renaissance in a
remarkably short time, an experience that made him an excellent choice to
lead UVSC, where he became president in June 2003. During his time at UVSC,
President Sederburg¹s dynamic leadership fostered many positive moves
forward, culminating with receiving approval for the institution¹s mission
and name change to Utah Valley University.
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Utah Valley University
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