Academic Capitalism and the New Economy
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Book
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ISBN 10
0801892333
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Publication Year
2004
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Pages
384
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Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States. Business and education--United States. Universities and colleges--United States--Sociological aspects.
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Abstract
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.
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.
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Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Theory of Academic Capitalism
Chapter 2. The Policy Climate for Academic Capitalism
Chapter 3. Patent Policies: Legislative Change and Commercial Expansion
Chapter 4. Patent Policies Play Out: Student and Faculty Life
Chapter 5. Copyright: Core Functions
Chapter 6. Copyrights Play Out: Commodifying the Core Academic Function
Chapter 7. Academic Capitalism at the Department Level
Chapter 8. Academic Capitalism at the Administrative Level
Chapter 9. Networks of Power: Boards of Trustees and Presidents
Chapter 10. Sports R' Us: Contracts, Trademarks, and Logos
Chapter 11. Undergraduate Students and Educational Markets
Chapter 12. The Academic Capitalist Knowledge/ Learning Regime
References
Index
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Theory of Academic Capitalism
Chapter 2. The Policy Climate for Academic Capitalism
Chapter 3. Patent Policies: Legislative Change and Commercial Expansion
Chapter 4. Patent Policies Play Out: Student and Faculty Life
Chapter 5. Copyright: Core Functions
Chapter 6. Copyrights Play Out: Commodifying the Core Academic Function
Chapter 7. Academic Capitalism at the Department Level
Chapter 8. Academic Capitalism at the Administrative Level
Chapter 9. Networks of Power: Boards of Trustees and Presidents
Chapter 10. Sports R' Us: Contracts, Trademarks, and Logos
Chapter 11. Undergraduate Students and Educational Markets
Chapter 12. The Academic Capitalist Knowledge/ Learning Regime
References
Index
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