Lisa M. Di Bartolomeo is Singer-Hill Professor Emerita of Humanities at West Virginia University, where she ran the Russian program until the Department of World Languages was eliminated. She now works for a national environmental organization. She lives in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Kevin M. Gannon
Kevin M. Gannon
@thetatooedprof
(DESCRIPTION)
What is a “polycrisis” in higher education—and what can faculty, students, and administration do about it? In this conversation, Drs. Lisa M. Di Bartolomeo and Kevin M. Gannon define and deconstruct what is at stake as universities are suffocated by political demands and the rise of corporate models to restructure non-profit higher education. They discuss their new book, The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity for the Rest of Us, which offers insights on how collaboration and innovation are keys to moving our universities towards sustainable futures.
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(CREDITS)
Host: Shelly Eversley, FI Faculty Chair
Guests: Lisa Di Bartolomeo and Kevin Gannon
Producers: FI Fellows – Peter Susanszky & Vallerie Matos
Editor: Devanté Duncan, CUNY Undergraduate Peer Leader
Recorded at CUNY TV in New York City.
(RESOURCES)
Daily Anthenaeum – West Virginia University Student Newspaper
(BOOKS/ARTICLES)
The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity for the Rest of Us – Lisa M. Di Bartolomeo & Kevin M. Gannon
Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto – Kevin M. Gannon
More about what happened at WVU? See “Zeroed Out” The Point Magazine, August 25, 2023
