Death of the Public University? : : Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy / / ed. by Susan Wright, Cris Shore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Blackmore, Jill,; Curtis, Bruce,; Dale, Roger,; Grant, Barbara M.,; Grey, Sandra,; Hansen, Birgitte Gorm,; Kohn, Tamara,; Lewis, Nick,; Lucas, Lisa,; Morgan, John,; Nielsen, Gritt B.,; Robertson, Susan L.,; Sarauw, Laura Louise,; Shore, Cris,; Sturm, Sean,; Tremewan, Christopher,; Turner, Stephen,; Wright, Susan,; Ørberg, Jakob Williams,
• HerausgeberIn: Shore, Cris,; Wright, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)

Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them ‘entrepreneurial’, ‘efficient’ and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue ‘excellence’ and ‘innovation’, many universities are struggling to maintain their traditional mission to be inclusive, improve social mobility and equality and act as the ‘critic and conscience’ of society. Drawing on a multi-disciplinary research project, University Reform, Globalisation and Europeanisation (URGE), this collection analyses the new landscapes of public universities emerging across Europe and the Asia-Pacific, and the different ways that academics are engaging with them.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION Privatizing the Public University: Key Trends, Countertrends and Alternatives -- PART I Redefining the Mission and Meaning of the University -- CHAPTER 1 Universities in Britain and the Spirit of ’45 -- CHAPTER 2 Managing the Third Mission: Reform or Reinvention of the Public University? -- CHAPTER 3 Universities in the Competition State: Lessons from Denmark -- CHAPTER 4 Leadership in Higher Education A Critical Feminist Perspective on Global Restructuring -- PART II Performing the New University – New Priorities, New Subjects -- CHAPTER 5 Science/ Industry Collaboration: Bugs, Project Barons and Managing Symbiosis -- CHAPTER 6 On Delivering the Consumer-Citizen: New Pedagogies and Their Affective Economies -- CHAPTER 7 Tuning Up and Tuning In: How the European Bologna Process Is Influencing Students’ Time of Study -- PART III Managing the Risk University – Research, Ranking and Reputation -- CHAPTER 8 The Causes, Mechanisms and Consequences of Reputational Risk Management of Universities and the Higher Education Sector -- CHAPTER 9 The Rise and Rise of the Performance-Based Research Fund? -- CHAPTER 10 Evaluating Academic Research: Ambivalence, Anxiety and Audit in the Risk University -- CHAPTER 11 The Ethics of University Ethics Committees: Risk Management and the Research Imagination -- PART IV Reviving the Public University - Alternative Visions -- CHAPTER 12 Who Will Win the Global Hunger Games? The Emerging Significance of Research Universities in the International Relations of States -- CHAPTER 13 Resistance in the Neoliberal University -- CHAPTER 14 The University as a Place of Possibilities: Scholarship as Dissensus -- CHAPTER 15 Crisis, Critique and the Contemporary University: Reinventing the Future -- Index