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Aspiring to Elitism: How the Admissions Office Remade the Corporate University

by Anna Searle Jones • 23rd February, 2026 • with 0 Comments
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Video: Davarian L. Baldwin on Beyond Corporatization

by Ryan • 10th November, 2025 • with 0 Comments
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Beyond Corporatization: The University Campus as a Unique Site of Capitalization

by Ryan • 25th August, 2025 • with 0 Comments
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Video: Charlie Eaton on the Elite War on Universities

by Anna Searle Jones • 11th June, 2025 • with 0 Comments
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Class Struggles: The Elite War on Universities

by Anna Searle Jones • 5th May, 2025 • with 0 Comments

Video: Jonathan Levy on Veblen’s University Politics

by Lucy DaSilva • 10th March, 2025 • with 0 Comments

Video: Higher Education and Artificial Intelligence

by Lucy DaSilva • 14th February, 2025 • with 0 Comments
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The Real Economy: Veblen’s University Politics

by Anna Searle Jones • 7th February, 2025 • with 0 Comments
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Higher Education and Artificial Intelligence

by Anna Searle Jones • 9th January, 2025 • with 0 Comments

Video: On University Values II

by Ryan • 9th December, 2024 • with 0 Comments
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On University Values II

by Lucy DaSilva • 28th October, 2024 • with 0 Comments
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Reading List: The Corporate University

by Anna Searle Jones • 15th August, 2024 • with 0 Comments
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Video: On University Values

by Anna Searle Jones • 20th May, 2024 • with 0 Comments
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Call for Submissions: Future Café Post-X #5

by Anna Searle Jones • 7th May, 2024 • with 0 Comments
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On University Values

by Anna Searle Jones • 25th March, 2024 • with 0 Comments
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Video: The Kalven Report and Freedom of Expression

by Ryan • 13th February, 2024 • with 0 Comments
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The Kalven Report and Freedom of Expression

by Ryan • 3rd January, 2024 • with 0 Comments
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Video: Robert Meister on Opposing University Financialization

by Ryan • 21st November, 2023 • with 0 Comments
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West Virginia Chicago Is Happening to You: The Fight for the Modern University

by Anna Searle Jones • 25th October, 2023 • with 0 Comments
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Opposing University Financialization from the Inside: An Autoethnography

by Anna Searle Jones • 25th October, 2023 • with 0 Comments
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The Corporate University

by Anna Searle Jones • 25th October, 2023 • with 0 Comments

From budget deficits to the reliance on adjunct labor, from anxieties about “woke” campus politics to worries about “cancel culture,” from the erosion of faculty governance to the empowerment of consultants and trustees, the university as an institution is being transformed.