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The exchange university : corporatization of academic culture / edited by Adrienne S. Chan and Donald Fisher.
Van Pelt Library LC67.68.C2 E84 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Economic aspects--Canada.
- Education, Higher.
- Universities and colleges--Canada--Finance.
- Universities and colleges.
- Business and education--Canada.
- Business and education.
- Academic spin-outs--Canada.
- Academic spin-outs.
- Education, Higher--Research--Economic aspects--Canada.
- Higher education and state--Canada.
- Higher education and state.
- Education, Higher--Research.
- Finance.
- Education, Higher--Economic aspects.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 228 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- The Exchange University critically examines the commercialization of today's academy. Universities are under increasing economic pressure to develop human capital, science, and technology in support of the need for economic restructuring and international competitiveness. "Market relations" and "knowledge economies" have become key phrases in university debates over research and academic priorities, while privatization reveals tensions between public and private sectors.
- Pressures for capital accumulation, research commercialization, technology transfer, and academic capitalism create fractures in today's universities by weakening boundaries separating academy and industry. Furthermore, through legislation and policy, governments have created quasi-markets that encourage institutional competition both within the public sphere and between public and private sectors. The Exchange University addresses crucial questions facing today's university on these fronts.
- Contents:
- 1 The Academic Capitalist Knowledge/Learning Regime / Sheila Slaughter, Gary Rhoades 19
- 2 Academic Culture and the Research-Intensive University: The Impact of Commercialism and Scientism / Adrienne S. Chan, Donald Fisher 49
- 3 The New Production of Researchers / Brigitte Gemme, Yves Gingras 70
- 4 Public Policy in Ontario Higher Education: From Frost to Harris / Paul Axelrod 90
- 5 How Fares Equity in an Era of Academic Capitalism? The Role of Contingent Faculty / Linda Muzzin 105
- 6 Reclaiming Our Centre: Toward a Robust Defence of Academic Autonomy / Janice Newson, Claire Polster 125
- 7 "Gender at Work" in Teacher Education: History, Society, and Global Reform / Jo-Anne Dillabough, Sandra Acker 147
- 8 The Political Economy of Legal Scholarship: A Case Study of the University of British Columbia Law School / Theresa Shanahan 168
- 9 Keeping the Commons in Academic Culture: Protecting the Knowledge Commons from the Enclosure of the Knowledge Economy / Jennifer Sumner 188.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780774815697
- 0774815698
- OCLC:
- 242050347
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