neoliberalism in higher education Archives

neoliberalism in higher education Archive

PERSPECTIVE: Niche View of Higher Education Becomes a Broadbrush Critique

A neoliberal view begets a neoliberal critique and leads to neoliberal solutions.

by Future U/ August 17, 2024/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives/

NEXT FUTUREU FORUM, Tuesday, May 14, with Professors Lyon-Callo and Shear

“Neoliberalism, Subjectivities, and Transformations in Education,” May 14, 2024, Noon-1:30p, Eastern Time The discussion explores the challenges confronting educators and young people …

by Future U/ May 14, 2024/ FutureU Forum, Neoliberalism, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Higher Education as a Business (As Seen Two Decades Ago)

"The university sector has modernized; but modernity comes with a price."

by Future U/ January 14, 2024/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY: Academic Management Primer II: All BIS Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others

Notes from the front line of art-science crossover education and a follow-up to Academic Management Primer I.

by Adrian Lenardic and Anthony Covington/ December 31, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: “Following Market Trends is Not ‘Liberal’ in the Original Sense of the Word”

But following market trends is Neoliberalism--Neoliberalism in higher education.

by Future U/ October 25, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

COMMENTARY by J.W. Traphagan: Enterprise Software and the Ongoing Onslaught of the Business Model On Higher Education

"We must be attentive to seemingly trivial changes that signal a reconfiguration of academic institutions as businesses."

by John Traphagan/ September 4, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY by Adrian Lenardic: “Innovation at University, Inc.”

"It is at least creepy to have all the problems humanity may face packaged as opportunities for entrepreneurship."

by Future U/ September 2, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

FUTUREU FORUM YOUTUBE: J.W. Traphagan on the Quantification of Quality in Higher Education

Taped on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, and hosted by Rubén Martinez with George Styles as discussant.

by Future U/ June 22, 2023/ FutureU Forum, Higher Ed, Society, Video/

COMMENTARY: “Lucky Hank” Fails to Dramatize Today’s Siege on Higher Education

"AMC's, Lucky Hank, is based on the novel Straight Man (1997), which was released during a different era of higher …

by Frank Fear/ June 7, 2023/ Film review, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Making the Case for Politically Engaged Scholarship

Politically engaged scholarship is the "preeminent scholarly approach to confronting neoliberalism and its excesses."

by Future U/ June 30, 2022/ Book Review, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Neoliberal Capitalism Has Infiltrated and Changed Our Institutions, Including Higher Ed

Ira Harkavy and Rita A. Hodges: “Neoliberalism valorizes education for profit, not virtue; students as consumers, not producers of knowledge; academics as …

by Future U/ September 11, 2021/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “Clickbaiting” Diversity in Today’s Higher Education

"Is there a way out of the lived paradox of being /used/ to refurbish and rearticulate neo/liberal arrangements that govern and extract …

by Future U/ September 9, 2021/ Education, Neoliberalism, Society/

FORUM: “The Entrepreneurial Intellectual in the Corporate University” with Professor Clyde W. Barrow

Friday, November 12, 2021, 1:30-3p. Eastern time. See below for participation options.

by Future U/ September 3, 2021/

PERSPECTIVES: Over 40% of America’s College Faculty are Part-Time Contingent Faculty … They are Earning Near Poverty-Level Salaries

Faculty members so classified outnumber tenured and tenure-track faculty combined (total=37%).

by Future U/ August 10, 2021/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

YOUTUBE: “Neoliberalism and Higher Education in the Age of Trump”

FutureU Forum recorded on May 28, 2021, with presenters Erik Juergensmeyer and Anthony Nocella II, and discussants Jason Del Gandio …

by Future U/ May 30, 2021/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Video/