Examining the Worldly University: Ambivalence, Paradox, and the Future of AcademeRoger L.  Geiger, Knowledge and Money: Research Universities and the Paradox of the Marketplace. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004), xiii+321 pp., $70.00 (cloth), $27.95 (paper);Sheila  Slaughter and Gary  Rhoades, Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State and Higher Education. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), xiii+370 pp., $39.95 (cloth).

2006 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Owen‐Smith
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Universities ◽  
Academic Capitalism ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The Future

3. On Building a University for the Common Good1

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Ingold
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Research Universities ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common

<?page nr="45"?>Abstract Around the world, universities have been converted into agents of globalization, competing for business in the markets of the knowledge economy. To an ever-increasing extent, they are managed like corporations. The result has been a massive betrayal of the underlying principles of higher education. In both teaching and research, universities have reneged on their founding commitment to the pursuit of truth, and to the service of the common good. With their combination of overpaid managers, staff in precarious employment and indebted students, they are manifestly unsustainable. Rather than waiting for them to collapse, however, we need to start now to build the universities of the future, and to restore their civic purpose as necessary components of the constitution of a democratic society. This article first sets out the four principles—of freedom, trust, education and community—on which any university must be built, if it is to meet the challenges of our time. It will then go on to consider the meaning of the common good, and how universities of the future can be of service to it.

What's the Future of Public Higher Education? A Review Essay on Gary C. Fethke and Andrew J. Policano's Public No More: A New Path to Excellence for America's Public Universities

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1142-1150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Universities ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Public Research ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
Private Research ◽  
Governance Models ◽  
Public Research Universities

Gary Fethke and Andrew Policano's book Public No More: A New Path to Excellence for America's Public Universities paints a picture of a future for public research universities that is very different than what many people will want to see. Their message is that the financial and governance models under which public universities have operated have broken down and that new models are required. While I do not always agree with their prescriptions, I argue that private research universities face many of the same issues as their public counterparts and that this book deserves to be widely read by all people concerned with the future of American higher education. (JEL H75, I22, I23, I28)

Reviews

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-93
Author(s):  
Eli Thorkelson ◽  
Guy Redden ◽  
Christopher Newfield ◽  
Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich ◽  
Marie-Pierre Moreau
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New York ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Women In Academia ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Policy Perceptions

Christopher Newfield (2016) The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 430 pp., ISBN 9781421421629William C. Smith (ed.) (2016) The Global Testing Culture: Shaping Education Policy, Perceptions, and Practice Oxford: Symposium Books, 302 pp., ISBN 9781873927724Michael W. Kirst and Mitchell L. Stevens (eds) (2015) Remaking College: The Changing Ecology of Higher Education Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 323 pp., ISBN 9780804793292Zuleika Arashiro and Malba Barahona (eds) (2015) Women in Academia Crossing North–South Borders: Gender, Race and Displacement Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 166 pp., ISBN 9781498517690Genine A. Hook (2016) Sole Parent Students and Higher Education: Gender, Policy and Widening Participation London: Palgrave Macmillan, 230 pp., ISBN 9781137598868

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