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...Succeed with caution: rethinking academic culture at RPI, PSU, and CSU / Donald W. Bray and Marjorie Woodford Bray -- Resisting corporatization of the university / Richard Daniels, with Lisa Blasch and Peter Caster -- The myth of the liberal campus / Michael Parenti -- ... -- Faculty workers: tenure on the corporate assembly line / Sonya Huber -- Professors going pro: the commercialization of teaching, research, and service / Sheila Slaughter and Larry Leslie -- Give me an $: moonlighting in the company boardroom / Kevin Kniffin -- ... -- Penn and Inc.: incorporating the University of Pennsylvania / Matthew Ruben -- Wiring the world: Ameritech's monopoly on the virtual classroom / Todd A. Price -- ... -- Take back the university: only unions can save academic life / Henry Steck and Michael Zweig -- Perils of the knowledge industry: how a faculty union blocked an unfriendly takeover / Jeff Lustig -- ... -- Keep your room clean: how to uncover corporate and military influence on your campus / John Peck -- Pocket change or social change? University investment responsibility and activism / Seth Newton -- Take the pledge: a promise of social and environmental responsibility / Neil J. Wollman -- Afterword. Business school: an interview with Noam Chomsky / Geoffry D. White.-- from WorldCat description

"Robert Birnbaum argues that higher education tends to adopt management fads -- newly conceived techniques enjoying brief popularity but which fail to live up to their promoters claims at the point when the corporate sector and government are discarding them. Although fads may have failed in these sectors because of various reasons, their failure usually to engage with the complexity of higher education's structures and processes makes their failure here virtually inevitable. The European Foundation for Quality Management Excellence Model, it is argued here, is a classical fad in Birnbaum's sense, showing conceptual weaknesses and being unlikely to engage with the particular characteristics of higher education. The introduction of the Excellence Model into UK higher education is shown to have followed closely the path that Birnbaum has identified; there are also preliminary signs suggesting that it will decline along the predicted trajectory."--ERIC abstract

In the past perceived cognitive potential, more than any other factor, was viewed as a predictor for a stable life and future success. The concept of "emotional intelligence" (EI), however, provides a useful instrument to describe the intricate configuration of interrelated factors that play a role in predicting a person's success in life. Using the merger between the former Pretoria Teacher's Training College and the University of Pretoria as a backdrop, the research reported in this article attempts to establish the emotional intelligence profiles of academics in a merger setting...The results of the study provide statistical evidence of how a drastic life-changing event, such as a "merger" between two higher education institutions, may hamper the actualization of academics' intellectual potential. The research accentuates the importance...and continued assessment of the ongoing functioning and well-being of academics who have been involved in a merger and it underlines the need for tailor-made training programs that may help improve the emotional skills and functioning of such academics.--ERIC abstract

An academician explores major issues in higher education labor law during the 1990s: union organizing by graduate teaching assistants, bargaining and workload issues, developments concerning grievance arbitration, and rights of individual faculty members within unions. Issues likely to arise in the next decade include alternatives to tenure, nonstandard employment contracts, nature of faculty work in light of new technologies, and the use of for-profit educational institutions.--ERIC abstract

The theory of academic capitalism -- The policy climate for academic capitalism -- Patent policies: legislative change and commercial expansion -- Patent policies play out: student and faculty life -- Copyright: core functions -- Copyrights play out: commodifying the core academic function -- Academic capitalism at the department level -- Academic capitalism at the administrative level -- Networks of power: boards of trustees and presidents -- Sports r? us: contracts, trademarks, and logos -- Undergraduate students and educational markets -- The academic capitalist knowledge/ learning regime.--WorldCat description

Introduction : Not your parents' university or labor movement any longer -- Part I. The rise of the corporate university -- None of your business : the rise of the University of Phoenix and for-profit education - and why it will fail us all / Ana Marie Cox -- Digital diploma mills / David Noble -- Inefficient efficiency : a critique of merit pay / Denise Marie Tanguay -- The Drain-O of higher education : casual labor and university teaching / Benjamin Johnson -- Part II. Laboring within -- How I became a worker / Kevin Mattson -- The art of work in the age of the adjunct / Alexis Moore -- Blacklisted and blue : on theory and practice at Yale / Corey Robin -- Tenure denied : union busting and anti-intellectualism in the corporate university / Joel Westheimer -- Part III. Organizing -- The campaign for union rights at NYU / Lisa Jessup -- Democracy is an endless organizing drive : learning from the failure and future of graduate student organizing at the University of Minnesota / Michael Brown, Ronda Copher, Katy Gray Brown -- Moving river barges : labor activism and academic organizations / Cary Nelson -- Social movement unionism and adjunct faculty organizing in Boston / Barbara Gottfried and Gary Zabel -- Renewing academic unions and democracy at the same time : the case of the California Faculty Association / Susan Meisenhelder (with Kevin Mattson) -- Conclusion : The future of higher education and academic labor.--from WorldCat

This book examines how the liberal democratic principles driving higher education often conflict with market pressures to credential students and offer knowledge that has a clear exchange value. Eric Gould argues that the failure to structure the curriculum so that it integrates responsible social idealism and humanism with economic and cultural needs constitutes the moral crisis of the university. Gould analyzes the economics and politics of higher education, showing how student consumerism, culture wars, faculty alienation, trustee activism, and a split between the concepts of "culture" and "society" have all resulted from the unholy alliance between pragmatism, corporatism, and liberalism in higher education.--WorldCat abstract