According to this, the corporate university is already in decline. What of the entrepreneurial university, however: is it the same thing as the corporate university? I am inclined to think not.
I do wish I had seen this panel at the MLA:
MLA Panel 803. Finance Capital and the University
Sunday, 10 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Lone Star C, JW Marriott
Program arranged by the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
Presiding: Christopher John Newfield, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
1. “Securitization and University of Finance,” Amanda Armstrong-Price, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2. “Financialization and ‘The Wisconsin Idea’ in the Twenty-First Century,” Richard Grusin, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
3. “Tech Transfer and Finance after Academic Capitalism,” Lenora Hanson, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
4. “The Force of Diversity: Risk, Privatization, and the Salaita Affair,” Nick Mitchell, Univ. of California, Riverside
Keywords:
Academic Labor, Finance Capital, Debt, Critical University Studies, Activism, World-Historical Crises that only critical humanists can solve, according to Eileen A. Joy, Aranye Fradenburg, Julie Carlson, Alan Thomas, Cathy Davidson, David Palumbo-Liu, Ken Wissoker, Glenn Hendler, Bruce Burgett, and others.
I did see this presentation and I recommend everyone read it in its entirety.
Axé.
In the same issue of Academe there is this, about the power of money and neoliberalization, and it seems the said model is more powerful. So again, the question of where we are and what to do about it is important. http://www.aaup.org/article/no-child-left-behind-goes-college#.VpvC9E-iOUg