Neoliberalism in academia: reflections from a parasitologist
Robin B. Gasser · 2024
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Robin Gasser, a parasitologist, reflects on how market thinking has remade universities in a 2024 essay. Managerialism rode in with neoliberal reform, and education became a product sold to student consumers. Tuition climbs, metrics multiply, and audits eat the week.
Scholars who arrived in the two thousands may never have seen the older settlement of autonomy and trust. Early and mid-career staff feel the squeeze hardest, as efficiency outranks curiosity in promotion math. Job satisfaction and the public mission of universities both thin out. The essay ends as a call to academic leaders to defend scholarship itself.
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| CREATOR | Robin B. Gasser |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |