Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education - Softcover

Slaughter, Sheila

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801892333 ISBN 13: 9780801892332

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Academic Capitalism and the New Economy

About this title

Review:

"Painstakingly researched... Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades warn of increasingly blurred boundaries among higher education, the state and the world of commerce. "

(Sharon Singleton Connection)

"The writers have made careers out of studying the issues they write about. They certainly have done their homework."

(Charles Pekow Community College Week)

"Slaughter and Rhoades offer the most coherent account of how the academy is mired in commercialism."

(Roger W. Bowen Academe)

"Unlike other recent popular works,... this one is not critical or afraid of intersections of higher education and the world of corporate sponsorships; the authors just want to help universities exploit these new opportunities for fun and profit."

(Choice)

"Provides a densely detailed and chilling description of the current 'state' of the university in the United States."

(Alison Hearn Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies)

"Represents a timely scholarly work that unveils the complex development of academic capitalism and calls for a critical re-examination of the mission of higher education institutions."

(Huey-li Li Educational Foundations)

"An impressive book and a major contribution to knowledge... The theory of academic capitalism presented in its pages will certainly stimulate and guide further studies in higher education for some time to come... All students of the educational arrangements in the new economy will find themselves in debt to the authors for their farreaching theory of academic capitalism, the wide variety of studies they offer to confirm it, and for the standard they set and the model they provide for subsequent work."

(Leonard J. Waks Teachers College Record)

"The strength of this volume is their treatment of the impact of academic capitalism on academic work."

(Edward P. St. John Contemporary Sociology)

"This carefully argued and documented book fosters critical understanding of, if not the possibilities for 'regime change,' the implications of our actions."

(Susan Talburt Review of Higher Education)

"Perhaps the best book for understanding the commercialization and commodification within higher education is Slaughter and Rhoades's Academic Capitalism and the New Economy... It tracks the deep and pervasive changes in policy and practice that have created new social network and organizational structures, vastly changing the function and role of higher education to serve corporate interests... and covers a variety of topics including expansion of patenting and patent policies, copyright policies, ownership of courseware and teaching materials, entrepreneurial activities by departments, corporate connections of university trustees, and advertising and branding contracts."

(Adrianna Kezar Journal of Higher Education)

From the Back Cover:

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.

"Perhaps the best book for understanding the commercialization and commodification within higher education is Slaughter and Rhoades's Academic Capitalism and the New Economy... It tracks the deep and pervasive changes in policy and practice that have created new social network and organizational structures, vastly changing the function and role of higher education to serve corporate interests... and covers a variety of topics including expansion of patenting and patent policies, copyright policies, ownership of courseware and teaching materials, entrepreneurial activities by departments, corporate connections of university trustees, and advertising and branding contracts."―Journal of Higher Education

"Slaughter and Rhoades offer the most coherent account of how the academy is mired in commercialism."―Academe

"Provides a densely detailed and chilling description of the current 'state' of the university in the United States."―Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies

"All students of the educational arrangements in the new economy will find themselves in debt to the authors for their far-reaching theory of academic capitalism, for the wide variety of studies they offer to confirm it, and for the standard they set and the model they provide for subsequent work."―Teachers College Record

"This carefully argued and documented book fosters critical understanding of, if not the possibilities for 'regime change,' the implications of our actions."―Review of Higher Education

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0801892333
• ISBN 13: 9780801892332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384