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Universities on the Market: Academic Capitalism as a Challenge and a Window of Opportunity
Demin, M. R.
Russian Education & Society, v59 n10-12 p465-485 2017
The modern university and the academic profession itself are facing new challenges: First, the increasing complexity of labor markets and globalization are undermining the structure of the academic profession, and secondly, the rise in cost of university research calls into question the autonomy of the university. The internationalization of the academic labor market encourages rethinking the structure of academic professions that have historically been focused on national (regional) contexts. The university is too expensive for the state and/or for students. One way to preserve the autonomy of the university is to offer society, the state, and businesses a wide range of services. This study seeks to answer the following questions: Can bureaucratic (self-)management effectively regulate the growing body of the university? Is it necessary to relinquish part of the university's autonomy to a hired manager? Can "soft managerialism" and new economic instruments help unleash the modern university's potential for society and sustain its autonomy? [This article was translated by Kenneth Cargill.]
Descriptors: Universities, Commercialization, Labor Market, Global Approach, Costs, Institutional Autonomy, International Education, Governance, Research Universities, College Faculty, Administrative Organization, Academic Freedom, Neoliberalism
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