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

ISBN-13: 9783031123726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Marina Vujnovic;Johanna E. Foster

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction: Disaster Capitalism Comes to Higher Education

Part I: Covid Trojan Horses 

Chapter 2: Laundering Coercion: Restart Planning, “Pandemic Task Forces” and the Dismantling of Shared Governance

Chapter 3: Flexing for the State: The Push for Hyflex Modalities in State Legislatures

Chapter 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 Bust

Part II: Covid Sleights of Hand 

Chapter 6: For the Love of Remote Learning? Now We Love it, Now We Don’t

Chapter 7: Aspiring Diploma Mills Don’t Stop for Pandemics

Chapter 8: Don’t Look Now: Tuition Increases and Student Debt

Part III: Sacrificial Lambs 

Chapter 9: (Further) Stealing from Poor Students: CARES Act Profiteering

Chapter 10: Student Life and Death: When COVID Responses are Turned Over to Athletics and Student Affairs

Chapter 11: COVID Testing on Campus: Not Making the Science Grades

Part V: Anti-Corporatization Resistance 

Chapter 12: Students Demand Justice

Chapter 13: COVID, Campus Essential Workers, and the Movement for Racial Justice

Chapter 14: Faculty Fight for the Soul of Higher Education

Chapter 15: Recommendations and Call to Action

O autorze

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.