Andrew Whelan (Wollongong): Academic Critique of Neoliberal Academia. Jonathan Cole on the pillaging of America’s state universities: The financial struggle of public research institutions may be a matter of choice — not necessity, as public leaders say. When universities try to behave like businesses, education suffers. Astra Taylor on how universities are becoming billion-dollar hedge funds with schools attached: Students are beginning to urge divestment. Ayn Rand acolyte Carl Barney is selling students a self-made dream. Pass, fail: Ron Srigley on an inside look at the retail scam known as the modern university. The birth of a college bureaucracy: As the cost of U.S. higher education has risen in recent decades, so has something else — the number of college administrators. Dan Donnelly on how universities should be employing surplus PhDs as administrative staff. The scarlet letter of academia: Adjunct professors have the honor of being the best-educated low-wage workers in America (and more).
Harry Brighouse reviews Lesson Plan: An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education by William Bowen and Michael McPherson.
