ABSTRACT
Th e corporatization of higher education has been a topic of noteworthy interest in recent years. Higher education has been pushed toward corporate-inspired ways of operating by the rise in tuition, decreased levels of public funding, increased emergence of higher education as a private good, and demands for accountability, among other trends (Andrews, 2006). Th e common use of the term chief executive offi cer (CEO), applied to higher education presidents, points to the current practice of applying corporate ideas to higher education. Th e corporatization of higher education, as argued by Aronowitz (2000), Bok (2003), Giroux (2002), and Levine (2000a), among others, is a deleterious development in higher education; one that is shift ing the very foundation and values of these long standing institutions.
