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...Micki McGee Duke University Press 2002 Hooked on Higher Education and Other Tales from Adjunct Faculty Organizing How I Gave Up My $50,000-a-Year Teaching Habit Micki McGee...

...Jaime Acosta Gonzalez; Eli Meyerhoff Abstract Duke University was founded on tobacco wealth, and now it has a tobacco-free campus. How should we understand this change? How can communities around this university, and higher education broadly, reckon with our historical and ongoing complicities...

...Randy Martin; Eng-Beng Lim As a critical nomenclature in Social Text , university points to a constellation of trends that coalesces around the corporate ethos of higher education: professionalization, academic capitalism, industry standardization, anti-intellectualism, managerialist protocols...

... local and planetary but also reconstitute culture and humanity as a whole. In the second and final part, I explore what their critical reception in American higher education reveals about the failures of postcolonial studies in the age of globalization. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 Third World...

...Martin Savransky Written in the wake of the strike action that has seen academics and students across more than sixty UK universities create new interstices and alliances against the marketization of higher education and its generalized forms of impoverishment, this parabolic article experiments...

...Bennett Carpenter; Laura Goldblatt; Lenora Hanson Abstract This article analyzes the case of Avital Ronell, Amy Hungerford's response to striking Yale graduate students, and higher education funding to argue that such instances illustrate the precise features of rampant professionalization—its...

... Gipper in the White House but also a hegemonic bloc constituted by hybridizing their movement to our federal and state governments. In this article I discuss the conservative bloc’s policy initiatives that target higher education and have-less populations. Not only do these ini- tiatives make...

... institutions remains. They have not entirely bought the view that higher education is compromised by its liberalism or radicalism. It helps of course that President George W. Bush has such a low standing, so the comparison might not be fair...

.... w3.arizona.edu/~phil/grad.htm . Aronowitz, Stanley. 2000 . Academic labor and the future of higher education. In The knowledge factory: Dismantling the corporate university and creating true higher learning , 68 -101. Boston: Beacon. Berube, Michael. 1998 . The employment of English: Theory...

... U.S. uni- versities to those abroad, Nussbaum argued, “In most nations students enter a university to pursue a single subject, and that is all they study. The idea of a ‘liberal education’ — a higher education that is a cultiva- tion of the whole human being for the functions of citizenship...

... students were enrolled in more than 4,000 U.S. institutions of higher education, over half of whom were women, and a million and a quarter bachelor’s degrees were awarded.3 As professional services came to define the job market, the very character of the degree shifted. In 1970, bachelor’s degrees...

..., as in the sixties, the student movement is having to rebuild itself from scratch. Each time the movement realizes its power, it fails to sustain it. Consequently, corporate America and other outside forces have diluted curriculum, pushed tuition hikes, and kept American higher education largely...

.... I want to make this argument by proposing a convergence in our understanding of both “free speech” in the abstract and “academic free- dom” in the local as mutually constitutive elements of higher education as a location...

... Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization(UNESCO). 1963 . The development of higher education in Africa . Paris: UNESCO Publishing. ____. 1999 . Statistical Yearbook 1999 . Paris: UNESCO Publishing. World Bank. 1991 . The African capacity building initiative: Toward improved...

...-thinking students, dominated the media and came to define the terms of public debate over higher education in state and national legislative forums. The concept of academic freedom became a keyword and battleground in the controversy over Columbia’s Middle East studies program that unfolded...

... of unprecedented growth”6 after higher education was directed toward the service of the nation-state’s administrative and economic interests, as well as the development of national identity. This isolationist national focus laid the ground for homogenizing...

..., “Women Sue Santa Rita.” 44. Project Rebound is one of the first higher-education programs for the formerly incarcerated, initiated by the formerly incarcerated activist, educator, and author John Irwin over fifty years ago at San Francisco State University. It now operates at multiple California...

... kin links imagined through affirmative action in higher education: the General Motors Corporation’s influential brief supporting the University of Michigan, when read in rare juxtaposition to the company’s sustain- ability...

... is as follows: American capitalism is here to stay, and in any case it has always been the univer- sity’s environment. Public support for higher education has been declining for twenty years and shows no sign of stopping. There is therefore no point in expecting a clean break between higher education...

... as power:Discourse and ideology in modern society . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ____. 2000 . The knowledge factory:Dismantling the corporate university and creating true higher education . Boston: Beacon. Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International(AACSB). 1999a. Data...