[SSC] How to set up a Co-operative university

Fri Nov 10 11:50:25 UTC 2017

Hi Richard,

Exciting to hear this!

I was at the meeting yesterday. There is real momentum.

I've recently moved to Bristol and am keen to do something similar here. I think it can be done in a place like Bristol for sure.

I would be keen to hear about your ideas. You are right to found your plans on a strong appreciation not just of the practical experiences and articulations of the SSC and FUB, but on the incredibly rich and exciting theoretical and conceptual work done by Mike, Joss and others.

I would be very keen to be part of any discussions.

Thanks

Joel

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From: SSC <ssc-bounces at lists.aktivix.org> on behalf of Michael Neary <nearymichael at hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 11:40 AM
To: Richard Hudson-Miles; ssc at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: Re: [SSC] How to set up a Co-operative university

You should check out the Social Science Centre, Manchester. They set up a couple of years ago using a similar cooperative framework:

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A new Social Science Centre (SSC) for Manchester will provide free, co-operative Social Science Higher Education (HE) in the centre of Manchester this autumn.

Mike

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From: Michael Neary <nearymichael at hotmail.com>
Sent: 10 November 2017 11:38
To: Richard Hudson-Miles; ssc at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: Re: [SSC] How to set up a Co-operative university

Hi Richard,

Thanks for getting in touch.

There was a conference in Manchester yesterday where people got together to discuss co-operative higher education and start to work out a plan for setting up a co-operative university. As you can imagine there were lots of different points of view, and plenty of radical ideas. You can get a sense of what went on from twitter #coopuni

You might be interested in research I have done with Joss Winn on co-operative higher education. You can access some of it here: https://coophe.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcoophe.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cjoel_lazarus%40hotmail.com%7Cfd1056068c5a4d399c7608d5282fdf93%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636459108428356492&sdata=%2FdIix1hU958lf%2BARsx0h8%2FZrZWBeTtJtKKfI96TMsAc%3D&reserved=0>

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You should check out the Free University of Brighton:

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All academic and professional services staff and students are invited to a workshop on co-operative leadership in higher education on Thursday 25th May, 10-12pm ...

Maybe we could fix up a time to meet up and talk about all of this.

It would be great to hear about what you have been doing in Leeds.

Best wishes,

Mike

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From: SSC <ssc-bounces at lists.aktivix.org> on behalf of Richard Hudson-Miles <rhudsonmiles at gmail.com>
Sent: 09 November 2017 13:12
To: ssc at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: [SSC] How to set up a Co-operative university

Hi,

I am an activist and academic currently based in Leeds. I think that what you have achieved at the SSC Lincoln is truly inspiring, so firstly solidarity and congrats to all involved.

As part of a recent three day strike at Leeds University, we organised a ‘teach-out’ seminar / lecture programme in lieu of cancelled classes. Of course, the content was much more interesting than the sanitised curricula one increasingly finds in the neo-liberal university, and both staff and students who participated were all energised by this experience of interdisciplinary, autonomous, and most importantly, free education.

There is a big appetite (there are four universities worth of students and staff in Leeds) to continue this project in some form. It would be great to realise something like the SCC in Leeds.

I guess I’m tentatively and naively asking the list how one would even begin to embark upon such a project?

Any advice greatly appreciated.

In solidarity,

Richard Hudson-Miles

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