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 ...
Author(s): Sheila Slaughter,Gary Rhoades
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2004
Language: English
Commentary: PDF (Conv. From .epub)
Pages: 440
Tags: Academic Capitalism, New Economy, Markets, State, Higher Education
Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 3
Copyright Page......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Tables......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
1: The Theory of Academic Capitalism......Page 11
2: The Policy Climate for Academic Capitalism......Page 46
3: Patent Policies: Legislative Change and Commercial Expansion......Page 80
4: Patent Policies Play Out: Student and Faculty Life......Page 120
5: Copyright: Institutional Policies and Practices......Page 145
6: Copyrights Play Out: Commodifying the Core Academic Function......Page 172
7: Academic Capitalism at the Department Level......Page 197
8: Administrative Academic Capitalism......Page 223
9: Networks of Power: Boards of Trustees and Presidents......Page 250
10: Sports ‘R’ Us: Contracts, Trademarks, and Logos, by Samantha King and Sheila Slaughter......Page 270
11: Undergraduate Students and Educational Markets......Page 294
12: The Academic Capitalist Knowledge/Learning Regime......Page 320
References......Page 355
Index......Page 397
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