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2021u_Lac47_Approved_Nc_Coms-3263-Humor-Communication-And-Political-Discourse, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2021u_Lac44_Approved_Pm_Bs-Multimedia-Journalism-Changes, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2021u_Lac46_Approved_Cd_Cmac-3001-Professional-Seminar, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2021u_Lac39_Approved_New-Certificate_Game-Production-And-Development, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2021u_Lac40_Approved_New-Certificate_Virtual-Reality-Content-Design-And-Filmmaking, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2021u_Lac37_Approved_New-Certificate_Android-Development-Rev1, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2020u_Lac121_Approved_Nc_Mdia-1103-Making-Connections-In-Media-And-Journalism-Rev1, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2020u_Lac105_Approved_Cm_Cmac-1003-Mass-Communications-In-Modern-Society, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2020u_Lac102_Approved_Pm_Bs-Digital-Innovations-Concentration-In-Graphic-Comm-Curriculum-Update, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2020u_Lac101_Approved_New-Concentration_Bs-Digital-Innovations-Concentration-In-Web-Design, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2020u_Lac98_Approved_New-Concentration_Bs-Digital-Innovations-Concentration-In-Game-Design, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2020u_Lac94_Approved_New-Emphasis_Bs-Creative-Media-Production-Emphasis-In-Media-Ministry, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2020u_Lac90_Approved_Nc_Mdia-4093-Media-Ministry-Campaigns, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2021u_Lac48_Approved_Cm_Mdia-488v-Independent-Study, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2021u_Lac38_Approved_New-Certificate_Data-Visualization-And-Information-Design, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2021u_Lac35_Approved_New-Concentration_Bs-Digital-Innovations-Concentration-In-Information-Design, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2021u_Lac19_Approved_Minor-Deletion_Modern-European-Studies, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2020u_Lac108_Approved_New-Minor_Graphic-Design-Rev1, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2020u_Lac103_Approved_Name-Change_Bs-Digital-Innovations, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2020u_Lac100_Approved_New-Concentration_Bs-Digital-Innovations-Concentration-In-Social-Media-Managment, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2020u_Lac89_Approved_Nc_Mdia-3723-Media-Ministry-Technology, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2020u_Ecs28_Approved_Reconfig-Program_Bs-Engineering-Management-Systems-Rev2, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2021u_Bu15_Approved_Pm_Prefix-Change-Cit-To-Isba-Rev1, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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From Bad Apples To Zombies? Walking Dead Leadership In The Contemporary University, Tara Brabazon

Fast Capitalism

Leadership remains an open sewer of assumptions, ego, platitudes and potential. When contextualized within an international university sector struggling and grasping to find a purpose, leadership becomes toxic and dangerous. This article reactivates, challenges and then transforms Ulrich Beck's zombie concept and applies it to university leadership, management and administration. I probe the renegotiation of power and identity, with particular attention to recent scandals and appointments of university ‘leaders.' This article also signals a movement from cosmopolitan sociology to claustropolitan cultural studies, repositioning leadership in universities at the end of the world.

Author Biography

Tara Brabazon, Dean of Graduate Research …

The Revolution On Facebook: Political Education On Social Media Through Nonformal Andragogical Communities Of Practice, Donald Moen

Fast Capitalism

This paper considers political education through nonformal communities of practice on social media. While formal and informal classroom environments remain important in the 21st century, most adult learning occurs in the nonformal context. Communities of practice on social media provide substantial knowledge dissemination and identity-defining communities of practice, also furnishing the opportunity for praxis. Communist Facebook groups provide communities of practice through knowledge dissemination, community membership, and praxis. This paper defines who these groups are, what they do, how they differ from other groups, their education and tools, how they exist outside of state control, and how they fit inside …

Uk And The 'Razor-Wire Humanitarianism': The Refugee Crisis And The Aesthetic Of Violence, Yasmin Ibrahim

Fast Capitalism

When the 'refugee crisis' in Calais became an issue of renewed concern in the summer of discontent in 2015, UK's reticent stance towards the crisis was captured through its measured approach. A notable riposte from the then Home Secretary, Theresa May, was to send in yet more security fencing to fortify the borders in Calais to assuage the disaffect from the truckers and the public. Dubbing this as UK's 'razor wire humanitarianism', the paper examines how the material artefact of the razor wire is implicated in the aesthetic of violence towards the refugee and migrant bodies in the camps of …

The Politics Of Curiosity, Eva-Maria Swidler

Fast Capitalism

Curiosity, a simultaneously intellectual and emotional phenomenon, is surprisingly unstudied, yet pivotal for social critics and activists to understand. While recognizing curiosity as frequently positive and necessary for creating new solidarities and political movements, it also considers the social and political roots and consequences of incuriosity, apathy, and ignorance, including such topics as willful apathy as cultural resistance and self-defense, ignorance as an ethical choice, incuriosity as arrogance, and the generalized anxiety of neoliberal society and the shrinking of curiosity.

Author Biography

Eva-Maria Swidler, Curtis Institute of Music

Eva Swidler is an environmental historian and political economist with additional interest …

Covid-19 Enters College But To What Degree?, Christopher Willard

Fast Capitalism

This article considers the potential long term implications of university emergency responses to Covid-19. While empathetic responses are important in a time of crisis, emergency measures should not necessarily entail the infringement of or the abandonment of rights articulated in existing policies, procedures, collective agreements, or contracts. Areas of particular vulnerability include academic freedom, faculty workload, and intellectual property rights. The author also suggests that crisis responses by higher education may be seen as more of an intensification of neoliberal pressures than as signaling new pressures from the pandemic alone.

Author Biography

Christopher Willard, Alberta University of the Arts

Christopher …

Was Karl Marx An Ecosocialist?, Carl Boggs

Fast Capitalism

Author Biography

Carl Boggs, National University

Carl Boggs is the author of many books in the fields of critical social theory, American politics, U.S. foreign policy and military history, film studies, and ecology. After receiving his Ph.D. at U.C., Berkeley he taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Carleton University in Ottawa, UCLA, USC, and U.C., Irvine. He is currently professor of social sciences at National University in Los Angeles. He is a regular contributor to the magazine CounterPunch, is a member of the executive board of the Global Studies Association, and is involved with such journals as Theory …

Panic Learning Off (And On) The Covid Campus, Tara Brabazon, Jamie Quinton, Narelle Hunter

Fast Capitalism

Online learning has been flooded with platitudes, promises and possibilities for twenty years. Oversold and undertheorized, online learning reached its "moment' through the Covid lockdown. Underprepared staff and underfunded universities implemented online learning in a crisis. This was a zombie apocalypse of a context in which to summon innovation. This article activates Paul Virilio's University of Disaster to explore the COVID campus and classroom, entering panic learning.

Author Biographies

Tara Brabazon, Dean of Graduate Research / Professor of Cultural Studies Flinders University

Tara Brabazon is the dean of graduate research and professor of cultural studies at Flinders University, Australia, fellow …