The Exchange University: Corporatization of Academic Culture - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774815701 ISBN 13: 9780774815703

Publisher: UBC Press, 2009

Synopsis

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.

Contributors are: Sandra Acker, Paul Axelrod, Adrienne S. Chan, Jo-Anne Dillabough, Donald Fisher, Brigitte Gemme,
Yves Gingras, Linda Muzzin, Janice Newson, Claire Polster, Gary Rhoades, Theresa Shanahan, Sheila Slaughter, and
Jennifer Sumner.

About this title

Book Description:

The Exchange University looks critically at the commercialization of higher learning, and how economic pressures and government policy are weakening boundaries separating academy and industry.

About the Author:

Adrienne S. Chan is on faculty in the School of Social Work and Human Services at the University College of the Fraser Valley and is an adjunct professor at the Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training at the University of British Columbia. Donald Fisher is a professor in the Department of Education Studies and co-director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training at UBC.

About this edition

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0774815701
• ISBN 13: 9780774815703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Chan Adrienne S.