Academia, Inc.: how corporatization is transforming Canadian universities

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The corporate takeover of the university -- Higher education and corporate power -- University teaching and teh casualization of academic labour -- The rise of the sudent-consumer -- Managing universities like a business -- The corporate corruption of academic research -- Resisting the corporatization of the university -- Appendix A: characterizations of modern universities.;Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Using casual academic labour remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada's higher education system. Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two fundamentally incompatible institutions: the public university and the corporation. Brownlee argues that moving from liberal education to corporate job training, public service to profit-making, and critical research to commercial invention radically undermines the goals of higher education. Investigating the hisory, causes and impacts of corporatization, this book explores how this transformatin has taken shape and its ramifications for both Canadian universities and society as a whole. -- back cover. The corporate takeover of the university -- Higher education and corporate power -- University teaching and teh casualization of academic labour -- The rise of the sudent-consumer -- Managing universities like a business -- The corporate corruption of academic research -- Resisting the corporatization of the university -- Appendix A: characterizations of modern universities.