The Coming of the Corporate-Fascist University?

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¹ James McKeen Cattell, University Control (New York, NY: Science Press, 1913); Thorstein Veblen, The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Businessmen (New York, NY: Sagamore Press, 1957); Upton Sinclair, The Goose-Step: A Study of American Education, Revised Edition (Pasadena, CA: Privately Printed, 1923); Earl J. McGrath, “The Control of Higher Education in America,” Educational Record 17 (April 1936), pp. 259–272; Hubert Park Beck, Men Who Control Our Universities (New York, NY: King's Crown Press, 1947).

² On the concept of social structures of accumulation, see, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Beyond the Wasteland (New York, NY: Anchor Books, 1984); James O'Connor, Accumulation Crisis (New York, NY: Basil Blackwell, 1984).

³ David N. Smith, Who Rules the Universities? An Essay in Class Analysis (New York, NY: Monthly Review Press, 1974); Barbara Ann Scott, Crisis Management in American Higher Education (Westport, CT.: Praeger Press, 1983); Clyde W. Barrow, Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894–1928 (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990); Sheila Slaughter, The Higher Learning and High Technology: Dynamics of Higher Education Policy Formation (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1990); Wesley Shumar, College for Sale: A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education (Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge Falmer Press, 1997); Sheila Slaughter and Larry L. Leslie, Academic Capitalism: Politics, Policies and the Entrepreneurial University (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997); Gary Rhodes, Managed Professionals: Unionized Faculty and Restructuring Academic Labor (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998); Geoffrey White, ed., Campus, Inc. (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000); Stanley Aronowitz, The Knowledge Factory (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2001); Clyde W. Barrow, Sylvie Didou-Aupetit, and John Mallea, Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation, and Higher Education in North America: The Emergence of a New Market Under NAFTA? (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003); Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades, Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004); Jennifer Washburn, University Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2005); Frank Donoghue, The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2008); Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011).

⁴ Henry Steck, “Corporatization of the University: Seeking Conceptual Clarity,” Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Science 585 (January 2003), pp. 66–83.

⁵ Richard Hofstadter and Walter Metzger, The Development of Academic Freedom in the United States (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1955).

⁶ Clyde W. Barrow, “Beyond the Multiversity: Fiscal Crisis and the Changing Structure of Academic Labour,” in John Smyth, ed., Academic Work: The Changing Labour Process in Higher Education (Buckingham, UK: Open University Press, 1995), pp. 159–178.

⁷ Clyde W. Barrow, “The Rationality Crisis in US Higher Education,” New Political Science, Vol. 32, No. 3 (September 2010), p. 344.

⁸ When I proposed this same strategy to my former faculty union during the Occupy UMass Dartmouth and Occupy Boston movements, I was informed by the union's executive board that Occupy was “a student issue,” which takes one back to Jensen's critique of university faculty.

⁹ Max Weber, “Politics as a Vocation,” in Hans H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (eds) From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958), p. 128.

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Clyde W. Barrow

Clyde W. Barrow is Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley. His publications include Universities and the Capitalist State (1990), More Than a Historian: The Political and Economic Thought of Charles A. Beard (2000), and Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation, and Higher Education in North America (2003). He has also published numerous articles on state theory and higher education policy.