Mar 5, 2026 5:00 pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
- Sponsor
- OVCRI
- Speaker
- Professor Rachel Ida Buff
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- Campus Humanities Calendar
“A Threat to What? Private Consultancies Managing ‘Risk’ in Higher Education.” Professor Buff (Univ. of Wisconsin) traces the rise of private consultancies from 20th-century managerial capitalism and the military-industrial complex to their entry into higher education during neoliberal reforms of the 1980s, expanding further through disaster capitalism after the 2008 Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic.