Articles by Ben Agger
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Universities, Inc. – How Academia Became a Business
Ben Agger - CounterPunch,
11 May 2015
We use shorthand for evaluating faculty: “She is productive.” Factory work may be too grubby a metaphor for genteel academics. The antonym is worse: Loser, slacker, non-publisher. Universities are forced to become business-like, produce human capital; we need gadflies, poets, and activists, too. We want a university—and society– in which people question the meaning of “productivity.”
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