Beyond Neoliberal Miseducation
March 20, 2014
Gan Golan of Los Angeles holds a ball and chain representing his college loan debt at an Occupy DC demonstration in Washington, DC. October 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
This post originally appeared at Truthout. It draws from a number of ideas in Henry A. Giroux’s newest book, Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education.
As universities turn toward corporate management models, they increasingly use and exploit cheap faculty labor while expanding the ranks of their managerial class. Modeled after a savage neoliberal value system in which wealth and power are redistributed upward, a market-oriented class of managers largely has taken over the governing structures of most institutions of higher education in the United States. As Debra Leigh Scott points out, “administrators now outnumber faculty on every campus across the country.” [1] There is more at stake here than metrics. Benjamin Ginsberg views this shift in governance as the rise of what he calls ominously the “the all administrative university,” noting that it does not bode well for any notion of higher education as a democratic public sphere. [2]
Beyond Neoliberal Miseducation
March 20, 2014
by Henry Giroux
1
Gan Golan
Gan Golan of Los Angeles holds a ball and chain representing his college loan debt at an Occupy DC demonstration in Washington, DC. October 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
This post originally appeared at Truthout. It draws from a number of ideas in Henry A. Giroux’s newest book, Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education.
As universities turn toward corporate management models, they increasingly use and exploit cheap faculty labor while expanding the ranks of their managerial class. Modeled after a savage neoliberal value system in which wealth and power are redistributed upward, a market-oriented class of managers largely has taken over the governing structures of most institutions of higher education in the United States. As Debra Leigh Scott points out, “administrators now outnumber faculty on every campus across the country.” [1] There is more at stake here than metrics. Benjamin Ginsberg views this shift in governance as the rise of what he calls ominously the “the all administrative university,” noting that it does not bode well for any notion of higher education as a democratic public sphere. [2]
Henry Giroux on the School-to-Prison Pipeline
A number of colleges and universities are drawing more and more upon adjunct and nontenured faculty — whose ranks now constitute 1 million out of 1.5 million faculty — many of whom occupy the status of indentured servants who are overworked, lack benefits, receive little or no administrative support and are paid salaries that increasingly qualify them for food stamps. [3] Many students increasingly fare no better in sharing the
March 20, 2014
by Henry Giroux
1
Gan Golan
Gan Golan of Los Angeles holds a ball and chain representing his college loan debt at an Occupy DC demonstration in Washington, DC. October 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
This post originally appeared at Truthout. It draws from a number of ideas in Henry A. Giroux’s newest book, Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education.
As universities turn toward corporate management models, they increasingly use and exploit cheap faculty labor while expanding the ranks of their managerial class. Modeled after a savage neoliberal value system in which wealth and power are redistributed upward, a market-oriented class of managers largely has taken over the governing structures of most institutions of higher education in the United States. As Debra Leigh Scott points out, “administrators now outnumber faculty on every campus across the country.” [1] There is more at stake here than metrics. Benjamin Ginsberg views this shift in governance as the rise of what he calls ominously the “the all administrative university,” noting that it does not bode well for any notion of higher education as a democratic public sphere. [2]
Henry Giroux on the School-to-Prison Pipeline
A number of colleges and universities are drawing more and more upon adjunct and nontenured faculty — whose ranks now constitute 1 million out of 1.5 million faculty — many of whom occupy the status of indentured servants who are overworked, lack benefits, receive little or no administrative support and are paid salaries that increasingly qualify them for food stamps. [3] Many students increasingly fare no better in sharing the
Henry Giroux on the School-to-Prison Pipeline
A number of colleges and universities are drawing more and more upon adjunct and nontenured faculty — whose ranks now constitute 1 million out of 1.5 million faculty — many of whom occupy the status of indentured servants who are overworked, lack benefits, receive little or no administrative support and are paid salaries that increasingly qualify them for food stamps. [3] Many students increasingly fare no better in sharing the
