Ira Harkavy and Rita A. Hodges: “Neoliberalism valorizes education for profit, not virtue; students as consumers, not producers of knowledge; academics as individual superstars, not members of a community of scholars. These developments reflect what Derek Bok, a former Harvard president, termed the commercialization of higher education.” Read more in Nonprofit Quarterly.
PERSPECTIVES: Neoliberal Capitalism Has Infiltrated and Changed Our Institutions, Including Higher Ed
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