Topic: Corporatization and commercialization

Corporatization and commercialization, Equity and social justice, Funding, Governance, Students, Tuition and student fees

The neoliberal non-performance of consultation: Missing democracy and transparency at the University of Toronto

Asmita Bhutani, Efrat Gold, Diana M. Barrero Jaramillo, and Ian Tian, University of Toronto

The University of Toronto has long been criticized for its general conservatism and lack of transparency; this story is almost as old […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Equity and social justice, Governance, Universities and the academic mission

Twitter shaming won’t change university power structures

Charles R Menzies, University of British Columbia

Online shaming leads to personal attacks and resignations, not structural change. (Miguel Bruna/Unsplash) “Another one bites the dust,” a colleague quipped. They […]

Corporatization and commercialization, International issues, Tuition and student fees

Canada’s high schools are underfunded and turning to international tuition to help

Lana Parker, University of Windsor; Bonnie Stewart, University of Windsor, and Natalie Delia Deckard, University of Windsor

Protesters join a demonstration organized by teachers’ unions outside the Ontario Legislature, in Toronto, as four unions hold a province-wide education strike […]

Collective bargaining, Contract faculty, Corporatization and commercialization, Funding

Capitalist creep on campus: the largest, quietest privatisation in UK history – it’s why we’re striking

Martin Parker, University of Bristol

Pexels For the next week and a half, many UK university lecturers will be on strike again, but who outside of academia […]

Collective bargaining, Corporatization and commercialization, Politics, Universities and the academic mission

University strikes in the UK: Why they’re happening and what you need to know

Heather Connolly, University of Leicester

shutterstock/Ray Morgan Eight days of strike action announced by academics will run November 25 until December 4. After that, industrial action will […]

Contract faculty, Corporatization and commercialization, Equity and social justice, Funding, Governance, Universities and the academic mission

The corporatization of the university budget and its consequences for academic support workers

Janice Folk-Dawson

As governments and administrators increasingly run universities like private corporations, academic support workers find their working conditions deteriorating and their jobs threatened. […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Governance, Intellectual property, Research and innovation, Tuition and student fees

As public postsecondary funding stagnates, the University of Toronto explores “alternative funding sources”

Mariana Valverde

Universities increasingly rely on student fees and other alternative funding sources to make up for falling levels of government support, but perhaps […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Performance assessment, Public policy, Universities and the academic mission

Universities don’t control the labour market: we shouldn’t fund them like they do

Denise Jackson, Edith Cowan University and Ruth Bridgstock, Griffith University

Some people are more employable than others. from shutterstock.com From 2020, universities will receive a certain amount of government funding based on […]

Academic freedom, Corporatization and commercialization, Research and innovation

When big companies fund academic research, the truth often comes last

Lisa Bero, University of Sydney

Industry funders can go to great lengths to suppress the findings of academic research when it’s not favourable to the company. from […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission

The problem with the push for more degrees

Johann N. Neem, Western Washington University

RIDTHISING/Shutterstock.com In a 2009 speech, President Barack Obama proclaimed that by 2020, the United States will “once again have the highest proportion […]