Academia, Inc. : how corporatization is transforming Canadian universities

Summary: Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada's higher education system. Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two fundamentally incompatible institutions -- the university and the corporation.

Record details

ISBN: 9781552667354 (paperback)
Physical Description: print
viii, 230 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The corporate takeover of the university -- Higher education and corporate power -- University teaching and the casualization of academic labour -- The rise of the student-consumer -- Managing universities like a business -- The corporate corruption of academic research -- Resisting the corporatization of the university -- Appendix A: Characterizations of modern universities.