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...Brandon W. Kliewer Abstract Ideological commitments to neoliberalism have re-shaped demo-cratic institutions. Situating public higher education as an institution of democracy, this article identifies and unpacks the ways in which traditional approaches to leadership learning and development...

... pp. $27.00 (Hardbound), ISBN 978-1-62779-539-5 © 2018 Claire Snyder-Hall 2018 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 2018, VOL. 40, NO.3, 605-612 REVIEW ESSAY What's the Matter with College? Exploring White Working-Class Resentment Towards Higher Education The politics of resentment: rural consciousness...

... Catnpaign of Acadetnic Labor: Refratning the Politics of Scarcity in Higher Education* Gary Rhoades General Secretary, AAUP Introduction I appreciate the opportunity to speak to your group, the Caucus for a New Political Science. For your group emphasizes the connection between academic scholarship...

...Nathan Angelo Abstract This article asks why discussion of racial inequality in higher education is absent from presidential speeches, which helps us understand why it is absent from the public agenda. I find a decrease in presidential speech about race and education after the 1980 and 1984...

... the existing corporate model of higher education have been exhausted in a rationality crisis that threatens to implode the administrative apparatus in higher education. The author calls for a radical reconstruction of power relationships within the university and in its relationships to capital and the state...

...Jyl J. Josephson Abstract It is time to reclaim the egalitarian democratic purposes of public universities. Public universities and colleges play a crucial political and public role in a democratic society. Yet much of the higher education literature looks at higher education through an economic...

... to further enhance its power. In the face of this assault on democratic commonwealth in higher education and elsewhere, many progressives are stuck in a primarily defensive frame according to which the objective is to resist losses and reestablish conditions that facilitate a less asymmetrical political game...

...George Ehrhardt Abstract Having largely disappeared from the humanities and social sciences, conservatives have become the Other in progressive discussions of higher education. Crucial to this othering is the ascription of personal faults, such as racism or a lack of interest in marginal student...

... ideal of the American Dream and equality and democracy, as grounded in calls for inclusion, access, solidarity, and empowerment. The resulting class analysis offers a critical context for understanding the current transformation of higher education beyond CUNY. New Political Science, 2014 Vol. 36, No.4...

...Jacob Segal Abstract In this article, I critically examine calls for reform of public higher education. I construct a counter-intuitive alliance between the conservatism of twentieth-century philosopher Michael Oakeshott and the more recent thinking associated with poststructuralism. It is argued...

...Sanford F. Schram Nelw Political Science, 2014 lid d I I I~ ~~o~ZouP Vo .36, No.4, 425-437, hUp: x. oi.org 10.1080 07393148.2014.954805 The Future of Higher Education and Atnerican Detnocracy: Introduction Sanford E Schram Hunter College, CUNY, USA The economic fallout from the Great Recession...

... helps explain why these donors have taken such a concerted interest in higher education. 9 Philanthropy Magazine is published by Philanthropy Roundtable, which advises conservative megadonors and enjoys connections to, and funding from, the Koch donor network. For more information on Philanthropy...

...Vincent Tirelli Abstract If the fulfillment of American democracy includes a system of higher education that provides equal means of access, opportunity and accommodation for all social classes in society, then we need to better understand how the vastly enlarged use of contingent academic labor...

... of steady federal and state cuts in the funding of higher education have led to the quasi-privatization of public higher education, with both public and private universities viewing themselves as corporate entities that must maximize student tuition and corporate and philanthropic revenues while minimizing...

...Brian Caterino Abstract For-profit colleges have become a major force in higher education. They claim to offer a career-oriented practical education that is an alternative to community and fouryear colleges. Often they fail to provide what they promise. Rather than being a new alternative...

... that is worth scholarly consideration. Rich's positionality makes the UN's issues and the book's conclusions truly alarming. ORCID Justin Patrick. httporcid.org/OOOO-OOOl-8041-9503 Justin Patrick. Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada S...

... degradation, homelessness, eroding public services, civic violence, threats to privacy—require extensive and creative political intervention. Further, it has taken place during a period of accelerated growth of higher education, informational resources, and communications. Most people seem to have lost hope...

... universities were under exceptional scrutiny by economic and political elites, who increasingly viewed higher education institutions as either private corporations which they owned or as extensions of the modern state apparatus. Moreover, Beard’s resignation came after a long string of dismissals, resignations...

... education supremely efficient and accountable.' '4 In large part, the trend toward technocratic planning in higher education has been induced by demands from the main sources of philanthropic support-in particular, the foundations and corporate business. According to Harold Howe II, a former vice-president...

... to higher education, serious problems arise that pose challenges not only for the future of higher education, but also for its relationship to democracy. In this article I will attempt to describe the features of the new, entrepreneurial model of academic governance that has begun to proliferate in higher...