Book chapter
An Entrepreneurial Ecology for Higher Education: A New Approach to Student Formation
The University Becoming, pp 125-138
01 Jan 2021
Abstract
In many parts of the developed world, the university is in crisis. Many scholars have sounded the alarm over the neoliberalization of universities and the education they provide (Ball 2012; Canaan and Shumar 2008; McGettigan 2013; Newfield 2008; Nussbaum 2010; Shore 2010; Shore and Wright 2017, Slaughter and Rhoades 2004). This neoliberalization has been a response to the financial crisis that has largely been caused by the reduction of state support for the funding of universities. And in the neoliberal economic model, one is selling a service or a production – a thing – to a consuming public. Neoliberalism’s emphasis on the reification of the process of learning and knowledge production so that it can be effectively sold, ironically, threatens to destroy the culture and activity that makes universities so dynamic and what David Noble (personal communication) once called a national treasure. Scholars have been concerned about how the cult of numbers has emphasized the auditing and accounting for knowledge accumulation as if it were a coin that we could measure not only the dimensions of but how many we are able to place in one hat (Shore and Wright 2000, 2015). But overall, this economization of the university has led to a question of what are the core values in a university and what is the university becoming.
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- Title
- An Entrepreneurial Ecology for Higher Education: A New Approach to Student Formation
- Creators
- Wesley Shumar - Drexel UniversitySøren S. E. Bengtsen - Aarhus University
- Publication Details
- The University Becoming, pp 125-138
- Series
- Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Other Identifier
- 991021863973504721