Forum 53:

Academic Freedom: Dangers and Distractions

Brian Soucek

Held November 1, 2021

Forum 49:

The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, NAGPRA, and Higher Education

Walter Echo-Hawk

Held October 28, 2020

Forum 50:

UC Challenges and Opportunities: Navigating California's Current and Future Political Landscape

Kieran Flaherty

Held November 12, 2020

Forum 51:

Pedagogy after the Pandemic: What Happens Next in Higher Education?

Vanessa Dennen

Held March 8, 2021

Forum 52:

Beyond the Usual Measures: The Public Value of a UC Degree

Michael Brown

Held June 8, 2021

Forum 45:

Impolitic Politics: Free Speech, Censorship, and Civility on Campus in the Age of Trump

Jonathan Zimmerman

Held November 14, 2019

Forum 46:

A Conversation With Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

Held January 13, 2020

Forum 47:

STEMM in 2020: Corrective Lenses, New Frames

Shirley Malcom

Held January 27, 2020

Forum 48:

The Genius of Black Colleges: What Every American Should Know

Robert Franklin

Held February 20, 2020

Forum 38:

Our Nation’s Professoriate, Diversity, & Racism: The Five Truths We Don’t Want to Confront

Marybeth Gasman

Held November 29, 2018

Forum 39:

Reproducible and Useful Research: Building Trust in our Science

John Ioannidis

Held January 29, 2019

Forum 40:

Can Universities Serve the Public Good? Using Rigorous Research for Social Impact

Adam Gamoran

Held February 21, 2019

Forum 41:

The Growing Inequality of Colleges: How and Why

Charles Clotfelter

Held March 14, 2019

Forum 42:

Scholars at Risk: What Are the Obligations of Universities?

Judith Butler

Held April 16, 2019

Forum 43:

Captain Marvel and 21st-century Women's Colleges

Elizabeth Hillman

Held May 23, 2019

Forum 44:

The Future of Education: Accelerating Innovation to Advance Accessible and Affordable Learning

Michael Crow

Held June 3, 2019

Forum 32:

Campus Climate, Inclusive Science, and Institutional Change

Sylvia Hurtado

Held October 26, 2017

Forum 33:

Universities in the Growth of California’s Great Metropolitan Regions: Lessons from Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco

Mary Walshok
Michael Storper

Held January 25, 2018

Forum 34:

Complaint: Diversity Work, Feminism and Institutions

Sara Ahmed

Held February 15, 2018

Forum 35:

How Universities Sustain Racism in America

Shaun Harper

Held February 22, 2018

Forum 36:

Community Colleges: Modern Day Engines for Economic and Social Mobility

Francisco Rodriguez

Held April 9, 2018

Forum 37:

Colleges and Intergenerational Income Mobility in America

Emmanuel Saez

Held May 14, 2018

Forum 28:

Anger and Revolutionary Justice

Martha Nussbaum

Held September 21, 2016

Forum 29:

The University amid Embattled Reason

Todd Gitlin

Held January 24, 2017

Forum 30:

Public Education and the Social Contract in an Age of Diversity and Division

Marta Tienda

Held February 23, 2017

Forum 31:

Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education

Michael Fabricant
Stephen Brier

Held May 8, 2017

Forum 23:

Universities, Hospitals and the Social Mission

Julie Freischlag
Dr. Glenn Olds

Held October 21, 2015

Forum 24:

The Great Mistake: How Private-Sector Models Damage Public Universities and How They Can Recover

Christopher Newfield

Held February 8, 2016

Forum 25:

Open Access, Piracy, and the Scholarly Publishing Market

Christopher Kelty

Held March 16, 2016

Forum 26:

New Research Methods for Critically Engaging the Equity Question in Higher Education

Estela Mara Bensimon

Held May 2, 2016

Forum 27:

Privatization and Access: The Chilean Higher Education Experiment and Its Discontents

Cristina Gonzalez
Liliana Pedraja

Held May 25, 2016

Forum 17:

Stem, Immigration, and Controversy: Does the U.S. Have Enough STEM Workers?

Michael Teitelbaum

Held October 9, 2014

Forum 18:

Keeping Track of One’s Moral Compass Despite Pressures to Lose It: How a Public University Can Maintain Its Integrity

Dr. Haavi Morreim

Held November 20, 2014

Forum 19:

Diversity and the University of California: Is It Possible?

Patricia Gándara
Gary Orfield

Held January 14, 2015

Forum 20:

Rescuing Biomedical Research: The Path Ahead

Bruce Alberts

Held March 6, 2015

Forum 21:

How Disruptive Can We Be? Intended and Unintended Effects of Changing Academic Practices

Alessandro Duranti

Held April 16, 2015

Forum 22:

The End of the Corporate University: What We Are Now

Wendy Brown

Held May 20, 2015

Forum 8:

Opportunity, Meritocracy, and Access to Higher Education

Caroline Hoxby

Held December 2, 2013

Forum 9:

Access and Affordability: A Student and Faculty Perspective

Ann Stevens

Held January 22, 2014

Forum 10:

Open Access, Cooperation, and Commons: The (Uncertain) Retreat of Possessive Individualism in Networked Society

Yochai Benkler

Held February 13, 2014

Forum 11:

The University and the Public Good: What Should We Be Doing on Climate Change?

Naomi Oreskes

Held February 21, 2014

Forum 12:

The Constitutional Dimensions of Academic Freedom

Robert Post

Held March 14, 2014

Forum 13:

The Humanities and the Common Good

David Marshall
William Ladusaw

Held April 4, 2014

Forum 14:

Public Universities and Regional Growth: Insights from the University of California

Held April 22, 2014

Forum 15:

Diversity’s Promise for Excellence in a Pluralistic Society: The Public University and the Common Good

Daryl Smith

Held May 7, 2014

Forum 16:

The Public University and the Social Good: UC Davis Student Views

Held June 2, 2014

Forum 1:

Universities in Crisis: A Global Perspective

Michael Burawoy

Held October 12, 2012

Forum 2:

The Past and Future of the Innovative University

Roger Geiger

Held February 8, 2013

Forum 3:

Making the 'People's University': Exploring the Civic Mission of Public Land Grant Universities and Cooperative Extension

Lawrence Busch
Rose Hayden-Smith
James Lapsley
Scott Peters

Held February 22, 2013

Forum 4:

Contested Politics of Knowledge in the Public University

Nancy Cantor
George Lipsitz
Ken Reardon

Held March 7, 2013

Forum 5:

Challenges and Opportunities for Public Research Universities in Brazil

Carlos de Brito Cruz

Held April 17, 2013

Forum 6:

From Mandalay to Memorial Union: How Public Universities Keep Dreams Alive

Dr. Allan Goodman

Held May 8, 2013

Forum 7:

Faculty Labor Markets: Structural Challenges and Cyclical Shocks

Sarah Turner

Held June 5, 2013