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Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung Higher Education has been under assault for several decades as neoliberalism’s preference for market-based reforms sweeps across the US political economy. This book examines the implications of this for American democracy. It was originally published as a special issue of New Political Science. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Future of Higher Education and American Democracy 1. Realpolitik in the American University: Charles A. Beard and the Problem of Academic Repression 2. From E Pluribus Unum to Caveat Emptor: How Neoliberal Policies are Capturing and Dismantling the Liberal University 3. Academic Governance and Democratic Processes: The Entrepreneurial Model and Its Discontents 4. Ideology and the Reform of Public Higher Education 5. Resisting the Exploitation of Contingent Faculty Labor in the Neoliberal University: The Challenge of Building Solidarity between Tenured and Non-Tenured Faculty 6. Contingent Academic Labor Against Neoliberalism 7. The Web We Weave: Online Education and Democratic Prospects 8. The Changing Democratic Functions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities 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 10. Lowering the Basement Floor: From Community Colleges to the For-Profit Revolution 11. Academic Conservatives and the Future of Higher Education 12. Transforming the Game: Democratizing the Publicness of Higher Education and Commonwealth in Neoliberal Times ...
