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Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University
“In most debates over its future, the university is represented—by both its critics and its champions—as a secular temple for learning, a sacred space freed from the more mundane concerns that trouble...
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Universities: the industry dimension
“Some time ago I came across a website (I no longer recall the details) which was running what I thought was a particularly silly survey: it was asking its readers to ‘vote’ in an online poll whether...
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Autonomy paradox traps the academy
“Universities’ efforts to strengthen their autonomy by reducing their reliance on state funding could be having the opposite effect. A new analysis argues that while universities have significantly...
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‘The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic...
“Ellen Schrecker, a history professor at New York City’s Yeshiva University, starts The Lost Soul of Higher Education with a blunt assessment: ‘In reacting to the economic insecurities of the past...
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The GESO Report on the Corporate University
“Congrats to the our brothers and sisters at GESO, the Yale graduate student union, who have put together an eye-opening new report on the corporatization of their university. It pinpoints a number of...
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The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities
“… In The Last Professors, Frank Donoghue, associate professor of English at Ohio State University, believes ‘that if we set aside the rhetoric of crisis and first look back at our situation as it...
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Top university accused of selling out
“Corporate sponsorship is part of life for universities in the UK and US, which regularly raise hundreds of millions of pounds from donors. As Chinese universities race to transform themselves into...
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The profit motive is threatening higher education
“… The profitability of higher education partnerships for companies like Pearson Education highlights how educational technology is developed as a way in, both to the extraction of value from...
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Mary Gallagher, Academic Armageddon: An Irish Requiem for Higher Education
“Across the English-speaking world a storm of words has been written about the apparently terminal decline in academic values and standards in today’s colleges and universities. Many observers argue...
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Some themes and some music
“This year I have written increasingly about the following issues. 1. The mechanisms through which higher education as a previously socialised or social good has been marketised, in order that value...
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Higher education is a funny old game
“Universities and football teams have much in common, says Nick Petford – should fans in both arenas now accept that their beautiful games are first and foremost businesses? …” (more) [Guardian...
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Bemoaning the Corporatization of Higher Education
“… Although answers relating to the increased influence of business in higher ed and the ‘corporatization’ of the university came in fourth place in terms of number of mentions (close to a three-way...
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The rhetoric which surrounds MOOCs can distract us from the broader project...
“Together with Universities UK and IPPR, Pearson Education have launched what David Kernohan calls an ‘advertorial’ for for-profit higher education. The ‘report’, An Avalanche is Coming, is written by...
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Formal launch of Defend the University
“The joint SIPTU and IFUT charter for action against the corporatization of Irish universities was formally launched yesterday (November 25th) …” (more) [DCU union, 26 November]
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Mary Gallagher on RTÉ’s Dialogue
“Mary Gallagher, author of Academic Armageddon – An Irish Requiem for Higher Education, who spoke recently at DCU as part of the Defend the University campaign, talks to RTÉ’s Andy O’Mahony …” (more,...
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Academic ideals are being crushed to suit private-sector style management
“If universities continue to heed the call of corporatisation, the role of the academic – as we know it – will become extinct …” (more) [Guardian Professional, 2 February]
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Exposing a Corporate Trend in Higher Education in Germany
“Christian Humborg wants German universities and corporations to know: They’re being watched. As managing director of Transparency International Germany, a nongovernmental organization that fights...
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End the blame game: targeting managers won’t cure universities’ ills
“‘A misery narrative’. That’s how I heard the prevailing academic discourse on the current state of higher education described recently, as exemplified by an Anonymous Academic in a recent article...
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The business of higher education
“Fees or no fees, industry wants a financial stake in higher education. What does it mean for the sector as more money comes with corporate strings attached? …” (more) [Louise Holden, Irish Times, 25...
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Neo-liberalism and Its Discontents
“… The dependence of universities on corporate patronage means education has become more about product development and marketable skills than independent research or critical reflection. The humanities...
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