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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Academic Capitalism"”.
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Academic capitalism and Jesuit higher education: a critical discourse analysis of mission statements
… and Rhoades (2009) developed the theory of academic capitalism to explain the market-like behaviors of colleges and universities, which has been made more prevalent by the rise in neoliberal ideology and the new knowledge-based economy. Bok (2003), Giroux (2003), and others have warned …
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Constructing an Estimate of Academic Capitalism and Explaining Faculty Differences through Multilevel Analysis
… compelled universities to adapt. The concept of academic capitalism helps explain the new realities and places universities in the context of a global, knowledge-based economy (Slaughter & Leslie, 1997). Prior to this theory, the role of universities in the knowledge economy was largely …
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Neoliberalism, Academic Capitalism and Higher Education in Developing Countries: The Case of Iraqi Kurdistan
… to begin to understand better the emergence of academic capitalism in public higher education in less developed countries. How and why income-generating practices have appeared in public universities in less developed countries has not been well examined (Maldonado-Maldonado 2014, 201). I chose …
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Communicating the modern entrepreneurial university in the 21st century: a case study of academic capitalism and media messaging in the pursuit of revenues and national prominence at Louisiana State University
… dependence theories to analyze the emergence of academic entrepreneurialism. This study also assesses LSU’s capitalistic effectiveness against models of entrepreneurial development used by other U.S. colleges and frames entrepreneurial communication within the context of the state’s political …
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Mobilizing Higher Education for Development in Africa: A Case Study of the Association of African Universities
… university reforms at both institutions reflect academic capitalism, a phenomenon researched predominately in developed countries. Faculty and administrators' personally held beliefs about development and the university's role in development in Kenya have impacted the way that academic capitalism …
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ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES IN THE BRAZILIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARA
… This study draws on resource dependency theory, academic capitalism theory, and globalization theory as its theoretical framework. Resource dependency theory is used to clarify why federal universities in Brazil have turned to private institutions within their structures in order to generate …
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Strategic importance of recruiting international students for community colleges framed in the context of an institution's fiscal health
… and analyzed to allow themes to emerge. Academic capitalism served as the guiding conceptual framework. </p> <p>Key findings of the study indicate that international students were generally viewed as an attractive and important revenue stream and financial opportunity. For the majority of …
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The Wealth and Color of Off-Campus Recruiting by Public Research Universities
… dependence theory (Pfeffer & Salancik, 1978) and academic capitalism (Slaughter & Leslie, 1997; Slaughter & Rhoades, 2004) to develop expectations about university recruiting behavior and whether patterns are linked to unfavorable state funding environments. Findings for Chapter 3 suggest that …
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Scientific research and economic activity : the perceptions of academic and industrial scientists of the production and capitalization of knowledge
… of university-industry collaboration and academic knowledge capitalization. The analysis showed that academic scientists who received commercial research funding have relatively positive views about university-industry relations than those who do not receive such funds. However, one cannot …
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Through Our Eyes: A Photovoice Study of Belonging, Precarity, and Possibility with International Students in Higher Education
… experience and navigate precarity within academic capitalism. Grounded in critical pedagogy and the critical-transformative paradigm, the research sought to understand belonging, exclusion, and possibility from participants' perspectives, using participant-generated photographs as primary …
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Financing Policy for Higher Education and the role of the private sector in Libya
… for the main stakeholders, namely students, academics and institutions themselves. The research contends that the policy shift had had a significant effect on quality just as it has introduced universities to risks through engagement with academic capitalism with its emphasis on marketization …