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Author : Sheila Slaughter
Release : 1999-11-12
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 588/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Academic Capitalism by : Sheila Slaughter
Download or read book Academic Capitalism written by Sheila Slaughter. This book was released on 1999-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leslie examine every aspect of academic work unexplored: undergraduate and graduate education, teaching and research, student aid policies, and federal research policies.
Author : Richard Münch
Release : 2014-04-16
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 063/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Academic Capitalism by : Richard Münch
Download or read book Academic Capitalism written by Richard Münch. This book was released on 2014-04-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the intensifying struggle for excellence between universities in a globalized academic field. The rise of the entrepreneurial university and academic capitalism are superimposing themselves on the competition of scientists for progress of knowledge and recognition by the scientific community. The result is a sharpening institutional stratification of the field. This stratification is produced and continuously reproduced by the intensified struggle for funds with the shrinking of block grants and the growing significance of competitive funding, as well as the increasing impact of international and national rankings on academic research and teaching. The increased allocation of funds on the basis of performance leads to overinvestment of resources at the small top and underinvestment for the broad mass of universities in the middle and lower ranks. There is a curvilinear inverted u-shaped relationship of investments and returns in terms of knowledge production. Paradoxically, the intrusion of the economic logic and measures of managerial controlling into the academic field imply increasing inefficiency in the allocation of resources to universities. The top institutions suffer from overinvestment, the rank-and-file institutions from underinvestment. The economic inefficiency is accompanied by a shrinking potential for renewal and open knowledge evolution.
Author : Brendan Cantwell
Release : 2014-11-15
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 380/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization by : Brendan Cantwell
Download or read book Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization written by Brendan Cantwell. This book was released on 2014-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book will appeal to anyone trying to make sense of contemporary higher education.
Author : Sheila Slaughter
Release : 2009-06-01
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 622/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Academic Capitalism and the New Economy by : Sheila Slaughter
Download or read book Academic Capitalism and the New Economy written by Sheila Slaughter. This book was released on 2009-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As colleges and universities become more entrepreneurial in a post-industrial economy, they focus on knowledge less as a public good than as a commodity to be capitalized on in profit-oriented activities. In Academic Capitalism and the New Economy, higher education scholars Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades detail the aggressive engagement of U.S. higher education institutions in the knowledge-based economy and analyze the efforts of colleges and universities to develop, market, and sell research products, educational services, and consumer goods in the private marketplace. Slaughter and Rhoades track changes in policy and practice, revealing new social networks and circuits of knowledge creation and dissemination, as well as new organizational structures and expanded managerial capacity to link higher education institutions and markets. They depict an ascendant academic capitalist knowledge/learning regime expressed in faculty work, departmental activity, and administrative behavior. Clarifying the regime's internal contradictions, they note the public subsidies embedded in new revenue streams and the shift in emphasis from serving student customers to leveraging resources from them. Defining the terms of academic capitalism in the new economy, this groundbreaking study offers essential insights into the trajectory of American higher education.
Author : Henry Reichman
Release : 2019-04-02
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 58X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Future of Academic Freedom by : Henry Reichman
Download or read book The Future of Academic Freedom written by Henry Reichman. This book was released on 2019-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues Reichman considers—which are the subjects of daily conversation on college and university campuses nationwide as well as in the media—will fascinate general readers, students, and scholars alike.
