Abstract
Major studies of the academic condition can become good bench-marks—and some can even change the way we see higher education. Many times they help us to identify broad changes in view or even establish new perspectives. Though the change or perspective usually predates the study, it nonetheless makes the change visible—and attaches to it a concept or even gives it a name. Moreover, these studies can establish and set the tone of a conversation for generations to come—a tone from which it is many times difficult to break. Such was the case with the pioneering study of the neoliberal university.
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Notes
Derek Bok, Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003), x.
Frank Donoghue, The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), xi.
Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), 65.
Cary Nelson, No University Is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom (New York University Press, 2010), 124.
Ellen Schrecker, The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University (New York and London: New Press, 2010), 5.
Hacker and Dreifus, Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—and What We Can Do about It (New York: Times Books/Henry Holt, 2010), 168.
Louis Menand, The Marketplace for Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2010), 13.
Mark Taylor, Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming our Colleges and Universities (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), 16.
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Di Leo, J.R. (2013). Paralogical Inquiry. In: Corporate Humanities in Higher Education. Education, Politics, and Public Life. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137361530_3
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