Academia, Inc. : how corporatization is transforming Canadian universities / Jamie Brownlee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brownlee, Jamie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada.

Education, Higher--Economic aspects--Canada.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Research--Economic aspects--Canada.

Universities and colleges--Economic aspects--Canada.

Universities and colleges.

Academic-industrial collaboration--Canada.

Academic-industrial collaboration.

Business and education--Canada.

Business and education.

Corporatization--Canada.

Corporatization.

Education, Higher--Economic aspects.

Universities and colleges--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 180 pages : 23cm.

Place of Publication:

Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

"Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Using casual academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada's higher education system. Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two fundamentally incompatible institutions: the public university and the corporation. Brownlee argues that moving from liberal education to corporate job training, public service to profit-making, and critical research to commercial invention radically undermines the goals of higher education. Investigating the history, causes and impacts of corporatization, this book explores how this transformation has taken shape and its ramifications for both Canadian universities and society as a whole." -- Provided by the Publisher.

Contents:

1. The corporate takeover of the university

2. Higher education and corporate power

3. University teaching and the casualization of academic labour

4. The rise of the student-consumer

5. Managing universities like a business

6. The corporate corruption of academic research

7. Resisting the corporatization of the university.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Brownlee, Jamie, author. Academia, Inc..:

ISBN:

9781552667354

1552667359

OCLC:

901996872

Publisher Number:

90100330638