The Contemporary University: A Selected Bibliography
Note: These references were suggested to CORES for inclusion in this bibliography, and have not been fully vetted.
Corporatization of the Contemporary University
Ronald Barnett, “University Knowledge in an Age of Supercomplexity,” Higher Education
Armin Bernhard, “The Monetary Valuation of the Human Mind: The Conditions for Knowledge Transfer and Education in a Neo-Liberal Society,” Policy Futures in Education
Marc Bousquet, How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation
Marc Bousquet, Tony Scott, and Leo Parascondola (Editors), Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers: Writing Instruction in the Managed University Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor
Steven Brint (Editor), The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University
Craig Calhoun, “Is the University in Crisis?,” Society
Burton R. Clark, The Academic Profession: National, Disciplinary, and Institutional Settings
Bronwyn Davies and Eva Bendix Petersen, “Neo-Liberal Discourse in the Academy: The Forestalling of (Collective) Resistance,” LATISS - Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences
Gerard Delanty, Challenging Knowledge: The University in the Knowledge Society
Jacques Derrida, Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2
Janet Rae-Dupree, “When Academics Put Profit Ahead of Wonder,” The New York Times
Marcus Peter Ford, Beyond the Modern University: Toward a Constructive Postmodern University
Paul T. Gibbs, Trusting in the University: The Contribution of Temporality and Trust to a Praxis of Higher Learning
Henry Giroux, The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex; Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Politics Beyond the Age of Greed
Monika Krauss, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm, and Andrew Ross (Editors), The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace
Anthony Lowrie and Hugh Willmott, “Marketing Higher Education: The Promotion of Relevance and the Relevance of Promotion,” Social Epistemology
Christopher Newfield, Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880–1980; Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class
David F. Noble, Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education
Richard Ohmann, English in America: A Radical View of the Profession
Wesley Shumar, College for Sale: A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education
Sheila Slaughter and Larry L. Leslie, Academic Capitalism
Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades, Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education
John R. Thelin, A History of American Higher Education
Thorstein Veblen, The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men
Jennifer Washburn, University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education
Jeffrey J. Williams, “The Post-Welfare State University,” American Literary History; “Brave New University.” College English
Ideology and the Contemporary University
Ronald Barnett, Beyond All Reason: Living with Ideology in the University
Pierre Bourdieu, Homo Academicus
Donald Brenneis, “Discourse and Discipline at the National Research Council: A Bureaucratic Bildungsroman,” Cultural Anthropology
Noam Chomsky, et. al., The Cold War & the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years
Patricia Cohen, “Conservatives Try New Tack on Campuses,” The New York Times
Lisa J. Disch and Jean M. O’Brien, 2007, “Innovation is Overtime: An Ethical Analysis of ‘Politically Committed’ Academic Labor,” in Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism
E. Ann Kaplan and George Levine (Editors), The Politics of Research
Daniel J. Kevles, “The National Science Foundation and the Debate over Postwar Research Policy, 1942-1945: A Political Interpretation of Science—the Endless Frontier,” Isis
Cary Nelson, Manifesto of a Tenured Radical
Malcolm Quantrill, “The Community of Scholars and the Culture of Silence,” Journal of Architectural Education
Bill Readings, The University in Ruins
Edward Shils, The Calling of Education: The Academic Ethic and Other Essays on Higher Education
Paul J. Shore, The Myth of the University: Ideal and Reality in Higher Education
Marilyn Strathern (Editor), Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy
Jeffrey Williams, “The Life of the Mind and the Academic Situation,” College English