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The Exchange University: Corporatization of Academic Culture

New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry

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Title The Exchange University: Corporatization of Academic Culture
 
Creator West, Dianne
 
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Description The Exchange University:
Corporatization of Academic Culture
by Adrienne S. Chan and Donald Fisher
Pages: 224 pages
ISBN: 9780774815703 hc
9780774815703 pb
Price: $85.00 hc / $34.95 pb
Published: October 2008 hc
July 2009 pb

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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, including the commercialization of research and teaching; intensifying government-university relationships; marketization and commodification; and policy and functional responses within the academy. The book will interest practitioners, students, and academics in educational studies, policy studies, and higher education.
 
Publisher New Proposals Publishing Society
 
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Date 2009-10-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
book-review
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/365
 
Source New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry; Vol 3, No 2 (2010): Universities, Corporatization and Resistance; 59-61
1715-6718
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/365/463
 
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