Global Center for Advanced Studies

The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS /ˈdʒiːˌkɑːs/) is a fully licensed, privately funded institute of higher education owned by The Global Center for Advanced Studies, Inc. a non-profit organization in the State of Michigan.[1] The GCAS is located in Wyoming, Michigan. It is governed by a board of directors, which consists of the founder/director, a vice-president, a treasurer, a researchers' union representative, and a director of student affairs.[2]

History

The Global Center for Advanced Studies was originally incorporated in the state of Colorado on August 22, 2013, by Creston C. Davis[3][4] (currently Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at GCAS),[5] as an institute of higher learning based on critical theory, and on the concept of a "debt free education grounded in the principles of Democracy and the Commons".[6] Jason M. Adams joined GCAS on September 23, 2013 as co-director.[7] Adams later withdrew from GCAS.

The GCAS was subsequently relocated to Grand Rapids, Michigan and incorporated in Michigan on November 27, 2013 as a non-profit institute of higher learning, and fully licensed to provide undergraduate and graduate-level educational courses.[8] The Colorado corporation was voluntarily dissolved on February 26, 2014.

In 2014–15, Alain Badiou had the role of Honorary President at GCAS.[9] Azfar Hussain joined GCAS as its Vice-President in 2013 and is still working in that capacity. On July 16–19, 2015, a GCAS conference called "Democracy Rising World Conference 2015" took place in Athens.[10][11] In autumn 2015, GCAS partnered with two institutions of higher education in Europe, the Alma Mater Europaea and Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (ISH).[12]

Academics

The GCAS has organized ten institutes within its school: Critical Philosophy, Critical Media and Cultural Studies, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Policy Studies, Critical Theology, Psychoanalysis, Global Studies, Political Economy, Critical Pedagogy.

The GCAS academic structure consists of both online and in-residence courses. The faculty features some of the most prominent academic professors in the world including, among others, Joan Copjec, Simon Critchley, Enrique Dussel, Arif Dirlik, Henry Giroux, Richard Kearney, Antonio Negri, Jean-Luc Nancy, Avital Ronell, Gayatri Spivak, and Gianni Vattimo,[13] while past faculty members include Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek.[14]

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