ABSTRACT
A spate of recent popular commentaries and books have argued that all-pervasive neoliberal logics have colonized post-secondary education. Titles such as Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University (2009), University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education (2005), and The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities (2008) tell much of the story. Universities and colleges are increasingly leveraging their intellectual capital to engage in private ventures, particularly in the sciences; they are increasingly entering into corporate partnerships of various kinds, including around student support and services; they are increasingly using contingent labor to fi ll teaching slots (particularly introductory classes); they are increasingly spending big money on “star” faculty; and they are decimating humanities and general education curricula in favor of more “practical” ones. The line between “non profi t” and “for profi t” higher education is blurring in ways that distress many.
