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Acknowledgements
The author thanks Leonard Feldman, Nancy Love, Mark Mattern, Joe Soss, and John Wallach for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article.
Notes
1 Wendy Brown, “Neo-Liberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy,” Theory & Event 7:1 (2003); and Wendy Brown, “American Nightmare: Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-Democratization,” Political Theory 34:6 (2006), pp. 690–714.
2 Jamie Peck, “Zombie Neoliberalism and the Ambidexterous State,” Theoretical Criminology 14:1 (2010) pp. 104–110.
3 Saskia Sassen, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006).
4 Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram, Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011).
5 Private foundations, such as the Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation have led the campaign to promote market-based education reform. See Diane Ratvich, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (New York: Basic Books, 2010).
6 Garnet Kindervater and Joe Soss, “Governing Through Crisis: How States Produce the Present in the Future Tense” (Paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, April 17–20, 2014).
7A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform (Washington, DC: US Department of Education, National Commission on Excellence in Education, April 1983), <http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/intro.html>.
8 Diane Ravitch, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools (New York: Knopf, 2012).
9 Jesse Hessler Rhodes, “Progressive Policy Making in a Conservative Age? Civil Rights and the Politics of Federal Education Standards, Testing, and Accountability,” Perspectives on Politics 9:3 (2011), pp. 519–544; and Jesse Rhodes, An Education in Politics: The Origins and Evolution of No Child Left Behind (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012).
10 Ravitch, Reign of Error, Chapter 32.
11 Suzanne Mettler, Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream (New York: Basic Books, 2014).
12 Ellen Schrecker, The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University (New York: New Press, 2010).
13 Henry A. Giroux, “Higher Education Under Siege: Implications for Public Intellectuals,” NEA Higher Education Journal (Fall 2006), pp. 63–78.
14 In particular, see Harry Boyte (ed.), Democracy's Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2014).
15 US Department of Education, National Commission on Excellence in Education, A Nation at Risk.
16 Ibid.
17 See Henry Giroux, Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education (Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2014).
18 See Harry Boyte, “Higher Education and Rising Inequality,” Huffington Post, July 19, 2014, <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-boyte/higher-education-and-risi_b_5602158.html>.
19 For a searing indictment of the rise of for-profit colleges and universities, see Mettler, Inequalities of Degrees, pp. 87–110.
20 Andrew Ross, Creditocracy: And the Case for Debt Refusal (New York: OR Books, 2014), Chapter 3.
21 David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
22 Wesley Shumar, College for Sale: A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education (New York: Routledge, 1997).
23 Tamar Lewin, “Obama's Plan Aims to Lower Cost of College,” New York Times, August 22, 2013, <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/education/obamas-plan-aims-to-lower-cost-of-college.html?_r = 0>.
24 Beryl A. Radin, “The Government and Performance Review Act (GPRA): Hydra-Headed Monster or Flexible Management Tool?” Public Administration Review 58:4 (1988), pp. 307–317.
25 On administrative policy feedback, see Joe Soss and Donald P. Moynihan, “Feedback and the Politics of Administration,” Public Administration Review 74:3 (2014), pp. 320–322.
26 See Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, p. 98.
27 The figures reported in this paragraph are from Chris Maisano, “The Soul of Student Debt,” Jacobin 9 (2012).
28 Ibid.
29 The figures reported are from ibid. Also see Ross, Creditocracy, Chapter 3.
30 Mettler, Degrees of Inequality.
31 Ibid., 30–39.
32 Donna M. Desrochers and Steven Hurlburt, Trends in College Spending: 2001–2011: A Delta DataUpdate (Washington, DC: American Institutes for Research, 2014), p. 6.
33 Ibid., 8.
34 Richard Arum and Josipa Roska, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010).
35 Bill Graves, “The Rise and Fall of Richard Lariviere, University of Oregon President, Fired on Monday,” The Oregonian, December 3, 2011, <http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2011/12/the_rise_and_fall_of_richard_l.html>.
36 US House of Representatives, Committee on Education and the Workforce, Democratic Staff, The Just-in-Time Professor: A Staff Report Summarizing eForum Responses on the Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty in Higher Education (Washington, DC: January 2014), <http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/sites/democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/files/documents/1.24.14-AdjunctEforumReport.pdf>.
37 Adrianna Kezar, “Changing Faculty Workload Models,” TIAA-CREF Institute, November, 2013, <https://www.tiaa-crefinstitute.org/public/pdf/changing-faculty-workforce-models.pdf>.
38 Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why it Matters (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 192–202.
39 “Major Players in the MOOC Universe,” Chronicle of Higher Education, April 22, 2014, <http://chronicle.com/article/Major-Players-in-the-MOOC/138817/?cid = wc>.
40 Boyte, “Higher Education and Rising Inequality.”
41 Tayyab Mahmud, “Debt and Discipline,” American Quarterly 64:3 (2012), pp. 469–494.
42 Andrew Ross, “Creditocracy or Democracy?” Aljazeera America, May 10, 2014, <http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/5/credit-card-debtclassoccupycreditocracy.html>.
43 Ginsberg, The Fall of the Faculty, pp. 201–220.
44 Tamar Lewin, “More College Adjuncts See Strength in Union Numbers,” New York Times, December 4, 2013, < http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/us/more-college-adjuncts-see-strength-in-union-numbers.html?pagewanted = all&_r; = 0>.
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Sanford F. Schram
Sanford Schram teaches at Hunter College, CUNY, in the Political Science Department and the Public Policy Program at Roosevelt House. He has published numerous scholarly articles and books, including Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty (1995) and Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (2011), co-authored with Joe Soss and Richard Fording, both of which won the Michael Harrington Award from the Caucus for a New Political Science. His most recent book is Becoming a Footnote: An Activist-Scholar Finds His Voice, Learns to Write, and Survives Academia (2013). His current book project is entitled The Return to Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy (under review at Oxford University Press). Schram was the 2012 recipient of the Charles McCoy Career Achievement Award from the Caucus for a New Political Science.