Research Catalog

Title

Academic capitalism : politics, policies, and the entrepreneurial university / Sheila Slaughter and Larry L. Leslie.

Author

Slaughter, Sheila.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Leslie, Larry L.

Description

ix, 276 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• The globalization of the political economy at the end of the twentieth century is destabilizing the patterns of university professional work developed over the past hundred years. One of the major changes that has taken place as a result of globalization is that faculty, who were previously situated between capital and labor, are now positioned squarely in the marketplace.
• To grasp the extent of changes taking place and to understand the forces of change, Academic Capitalism examines the current state of academic careers and institutions, with a particular focus on public research universities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. In this wide-ranging analysis, Slaughter and Leslie leave no aspect of academic work unexplored: undergraduate and graduate education, teaching and research, student aid policies, and federal research policies. All are part of the equation. The authors pay particular attention to how faculty spend their time, what forces drive their choices of activities, and what this means for higher education.

Subject

• Freie Universität Berlin Allgemeiner Studentenausschuß Kulturreferat
• Education, Higher > Economic aspects
• College teachers > Economic conditions
• Higher education and state
• Education, Higher > Political aspects
• Technology transfer
• Technology Transfer
• Public Policy
• College teachers > Economic conditions
• Education, Higher > Economic aspects
• Education, Higher > Political aspects
• Higher education and state
• Technology transfer
• Hochschulökonomie
• Wirtschaft
• Marktanpassung
• Forschungsfinanzierung
• Marktwirtschaft
• Management
• Universität
• Universiteiten
• Sociaal-economische verandering
• Marktmechanisme
• Ondernemerschap
• College teachers > Economic aspects
• Englisches Sprachgebiet
• Australien
• Großbritannien
• Kanada
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-270) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Academic Capitalism -- Ch. 2. Academic Science and Technology in the Global Marketplace -- Ch. 3. Organizational Turbulence and Resource Dependence -- Ch. 4. Advantages and Disadvantages of Academic Capitalism -- Ch. 5. Technology Transfer Strategies as a Response to Resource Dependence -- Ch. 6. Entrepreneurial Knowledge -- Ch. 7. Reprise: Academic Capitalism -- Appendix. Changes in Financing Higher Education in OECD Countries and the Four Nations.

ISBN

• 0801855497
• 9780801855498
• 0801862582
• 9780801862588

LCCN

96049956

OCLC

• ocm36017199
• 36017199
• SCSB-8906311

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library