1st Edition
Neoliberalizing the University: Implications for American Democracy
Introduction: The Future of Higher Education and American Democracy Sanford F. Schram
1. Realpolitik in the American University: Charles A. Beard and the Problem of Academic Repression Clyde W. Barrow
2. From E Pluribus Unum to Caveat Emptor: How Neoliberal Policies are Capturing and Dismantling the Liberal University Steven C. Ward
3. Academic Governance and Democratic Processes: The Entrepreneurial Model and Its Discontents Tracy L.R. Lightcap
4. Ideology and the Reform of Public Higher Education Jacob Segal
5. Resisting the Exploitation of Contingent Faculty Labor in the Neoliberal University: The Challenge of Building Solidarity between Tenured and Non-Tenured Faculty Joseph M. Schwartz
6. Contingent Academic Labor Against Neoliberalism Vincent Tirelli
7. The Web We Weave: Online Education and Democratic Prospects Seaton Patrick Tarrant and Leslie Paul Thiele
8. The Changing Democratic Functions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Clyde Wilcox, JoVita Wells, Georges Haddad and Judith K. Wilcox
9. Open Admission and the Imposition of Tuition at the City University of New York, 1969 – 1976: A Political Economic Case Study for Understanding the Current Crisis in Higher Education Douglas A. Medina
10. Lowering the Basement Floor: From Community Colleges to the For-Profit Revolution Brian Caterino
11. Academic Conservatives and the Future of Higher Education George Ehrhardt
12. Transforming the Game: Democratizing the Publicness of Higher Education and Commonwealth in Neoliberal Times Romand Coles
Biography
Sanford F. Schram is Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, City University of New York, USA. His latest book is The Return to Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy (2015). Schram is the 2012 recipient of the Charles McCoy Career Achievement Award from the Caucus for a New Political Science.
