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Neoliberalism Comes to Higher Education
by Frank Fear, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University
NEWS BRIEFS: All is not well in Oregon’s brandyland
Jack Stripling recently wrote an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education called “An Academic Reputation at Risk: The U. …
September 24, 2015/
Public Higher Ed/
NEWS BRIEFS: Japan moves to stop universities from teaching social science and humanities
The British publication Times Higher Education reports that Education Minister Hakuban Shimomura recently sent a letter to all 86 of …
September 16, 2015/
News Briefs/
NEWS BRIEF: WashPo follows the money in college football
Do universities have football teams or do football teams have unversities? Washington Post reviewer Carlos Lozada argues that even diehard …
August 22, 2015/
News Briefs/
News Brief: NYT op-ed says “Stop Universities from Hoarding Cash”
Victor Fleischer, a professor of law at the University of San Diego, questions why universities do not use the proceeds …
August 20, 2015/
News Briefs/
News Brief: Student debt on The Diane Rehm Show
On her show on National Public Radio, Diane Rehm tackled the issue of college debt and what the presidential candidates …
August 17, 2015/
News Briefs/
NEWS BRIEF: Deresiewicz in Harper’s on The Neoliberal Arts
The subtitle to William Deresiewicz’ August cover story is “how college sold its soul to the market.” (Click here to …
August 17, 2015/
News Briefs/
NEWS BRIEF: Gill’s “hidden injuries of neoliberal academia”
Professor Rosalind Gill of Kings College London explores how the pressures of the neoliberal university often leave faculty dealing with …
August 10, 2015/
News Briefs/
NEWS BRIEF: Delbanco’s “outrageous reality”
In the New York Review of Books, Andrew Delbanco argues that the historical story of expanding opportunities through higher education …
August 10, 2015/
News Briefs/
NEWS BRIEF: College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one.
Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities and a former president of Cornell University and the University of …
July 20, 2015/
News Briefs/