Higher Education and Disaster Capitalism in the Age of COVID-19

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-12372-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

Reihe: Palgrave Critical University Studies

This book reveals the layered effects of the corporatization of higher education, situated within the phenomenon of disaster capitalism. The authors argue that higher education administrators have seized on the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to advance a corporate higher education agenda consistent with the principles of disaster capitalism. This crisis deeply impacts what and how students in the United States learn, who gets to learn, and the very mission of the academy. Chapters also address neoliberalism as a policy statement that has reshaped and continues to shape higher education in the United States and in much of Western societies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foster, Johanna E.

Vujnovic, Marina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Hochschuldidaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Disaster Capitalism Comes to Higher EducationPart I: Covid Trojan Horses Chapter 2: Laundering Coercion: Restart Planning, “Pandemic Task Forces” and the Dismantling of Shared GovernanceChapter 3: Flexing for the State: The Push for Hyflex Modalities in State LegislaturesChapter 4: Staff Furloughs for Some, Chiefs of Staff for Others (Expand Administration and Shrink the Rest)Chapter 5: Bringing the F.U.D. to Union BustPart II: Covid Sleights of Hand Chapter 6: For the Love of Remote Learning? Now We Love it, Now We Don’tChapter 7: Aspiring Diploma Mills Don’t Stop for PandemicsChapter 8: Don’t Look Now: Tuition Increases and Student DebtPart III: Sacrificial Lambs Chapter 9: (Further) Stealing from Poor Students: CARES Act ProfiteeringChapter 10: Student Life and Death: When COVID Responses are Turned Over to Athletics and Student AffairsChapter 11: COVID Testing on Campus: Not Making the Science GradesPart V: Anti-Corporatization Resistance Chapter 12: Students Demand JusticeChapter 13: COVID, Campus Essential Workers, and the Movement for Racial JusticeChapter 14: Faculty Fight for the Soul of Higher EducationChapter 15: Recommendations and Call to Action

Über Autor(innen)

Marina Vujnovic is Professor of Journalism and Communication at Monmouth University, USA. 
Johanna E. Foster is Associate Professor of Sociology and Helen Bennett McMurray Endowed Chair of Social Ethics at Monmouth University, USA.