Higher education and disaster capitalism in the age of COVID-19 / / Marina Vujnovic and Johanna E. Foster

• Autore: Vujnovic Marina
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (427 pages)
• Disciplina: 379.81
• Soggetto topico: Capitalism and education; Capitalism and education - United States; Education, Higher - Economic aspects - United States; Educació superior; Condicions econòmiques; Capitalisme
• Soggetto geografico: Estats Units d'Amèrica
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Persona (resp. second.): FosterJohanna E.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-369) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- A View from Within -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Disaster Capitalism Comes to Higher Education -- The Eye of the Storm -- Disaster Capitalism: A Primer -- Critiquing Neoliberalism in the Context of Higher Education -- Chapter 2: A Newer Version of an Old Beast: The Higher Education Disaster Before COVID -- Higher Education, Industry and Profit from the American Colonial Era to the Gilded Age -- Eisenhower Thought to Add "Academic" in "Military Industrial Complex": The Interwar Years -- The Whole World (Was Not) Watching: 1960s-1980s -- Fire Wall Erodes and Academics Fiddle While Rome Burns: 1980s-1990s -- Giving Up the Ghost at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century -- The Great Recession as a Disaster Booster Shot -- In the Thick of the Currents -- The Chapters Remaining -- Chapter 3: Bringing the F.U.D to Thin the Ranks -- Cuts Cometh Before the Windfall -- Not Quite Exigent but Close Enough to RIF -- Grabbing Tenure While They're At It -- Never Miss a Chance to "Train Up" Faculty -- Bringing the F.U.D. to Union Bust -- Corporate Consultants Behind the COVID Panic Curtain -- Wolves in Sheep's Clothing Sometimes Cry Wolf: COVID Losses Not as Predicted -- Heroes of Their Own Recovery Stories -- "It Is and It Isn't the Pandemic": Speaking out of Two Sides of Administrative Mouths -- Turns Out the Campus Rich Still Got Richer: Top Hats for Presidents and Coaches -- We Have Been Here Before Redux -- A Wicked Web They Weave -- Chapter 4: "Cut to Grow" and the Spider Web of the New Global TEMPS -- Remember the GEI Titans: From Chicago Boys to Davos Men -- The Philanthro-Capitalists Go Back to School -- Thinking Bigger with Think Tanks -- Consultocracy and a Millennial Army of Zuckerbergers -- COVID "Growth Opportunities" for Higher Education -- ReKoching in COVID. ; Getting Mega: Managing and Mandating COVID Mergers and Acquisitions -- Growth of Entanglements: A Snapshot of C2i -- Chapter 5: Laundering Coercion: Restart Planning, "Pandemic Task Forces," and the Dismantling of Shared Governance -- Shared Governance Revisited: The Fritz Doctrine -- The Role of Pandemic Task Forces on Campuses: Things Are Not What they Seem -- Restart Planning and Invisible Hands: State and Local Limits and Opportunities -- Chapter 6: Campuses Respond to COVID: "Pandemia" Not Making the Science Grades -- To Test or Not to Test: That Is the Question -- A Game of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Who Wins in a Fight for What's Right? -- Chapter 7: Online Instruction and the "Hyflex Teaching 'Shock Doctrine'" -- Digital Transformations or the End of Higher Education as We Know It -- For the Love of Online Learning: Online Learning Before the Pandemic, Now, and After -- The "Hyflex Shock Doctrine" and the True Cost of Online Learning -- Chapter 8: Ghosts of Intended Consequences: How OPMs' Stealth Business Model is Redefining Higher Education -- EdTech Grows Thanks to an Edu-Political Apparatus: And Vice Versa -- "No, We Are Not an OPM": On How Snake Oil Salesmen Came to Plunder the Commons (Case 1) -- On how the "virgin snow" melts "other people's money" or What do OPMs do 2U? (Case 2) -- In Search of Accountability -- Chapter 9: Aspiring Diploma Mills Don't Stop for Pandemics -- "Degrees of Deception" -- The Infrastructure of Deception: The Graduate Degree Market -- The "Microcredentialing Craze" Grows During the Pandemic -- Chapter 10: Tuition Increases Also Don't Stop for Pandemics: Student Debt Realities in the Age of COVID-19 -- The Context: How Did Student Loans Become a Crisis? -- Pandemic and Student Debt: Where Are We Right Now? -- The American Dream Illusion: Student Debt and Tuition Increase Consequences. ; Chapter 11: Sacrificial Lambs -- Heads in Beds: Students at the Mercy of Housing Contracts -- The Games Continue: Student-Athletes Take the Hit -- CARES to Grab: Siphoning Relief from Public Higher Education -- Calling Off the Search for Truth and Meaning: Sacrificing the Curriculum -- From Silence of the Lambs to Lions at the Gate -- Chapter 12: Resisting the Spider Web of Pandemic Opportunism -- Students Demand Justice -- Campaigning for COVID Relief -- College Athlete Labor Movement Accelerates -- Students Broaden the Platform -- Academic Workers Demand Justice -- An Academic Labor Reawakening -- Coalitions, Solidarities, and Organizing for the Common Good -- Campus Coalitions -- National Coalitions -- Organizing for the Common Good -- Chapter 13: After Shock: Our Stories, Our Future -- The University of Ruin: What the COVID-19 Disaster Has Taught Us -- A Different Kind of Disaster Opportunity -- Call Things by Their Right Names -- Be Traitors to the Myth, Keepers of the Dream: Identifying as Workers -- Education or Horse-racing?: Choose Your Side -- Stop the Bleeding -- In the Space In Between: Restructure, Redistribute, and Repair -- Mourn the Loss and Begin Again: This Time, for the People -- Organize, Organize, Organize to Build a New Kind of Unionism -- Organize to Build a New Economy -- Rising From The Rubble -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Higher Education and Disaster Capitalism in the Age of COVID-19
• ISBN: 3-031-12370-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910624321803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave critical university studies.