Academic Labor in the Corporate University: The Challenge for Unions

2006/03/01 by Jphn Magney, John Magney
Social Sciences · #Higher Education Governance and Development

paper · pdf · doi:10.7275/democratic-communique.205

Abstract

Over the past several decades, a new paradigm of organization has been reshaping higher education in the United States. Most colleges and universities now operate like knowledge factories. Notions of faculty governance have been eroded by the decision-making power of an emergent elite class of professional administrators.

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