CHAPTER 15 Crisis, Critique and the Contemporary University: Reinventing the Future

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations, Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Preface ix
6. INTRODUCTION Privatizing the Public University: Key Trends, Countertrends and Alternatives 1
7. PART I Redefining the Mission and Meaning of the University
8. CHAPTER 1 Universities in Britain and the Spirit of ’45 31
9. CHAPTER 2 Managing the Third Mission: Reform or Reinvention of the Public University? 47
10. CHAPTER 3 Universities in the Competition State: Lessons from Denmark 69
11. CHAPTER 4 Leadership in Higher Education A Critical Feminist Perspective on Global Restructuring 90
12. PART II Performing the New University – New Priorities, New Subjects
13. CHAPTER 5 Science/ Industry Collaboration: Bugs, Project Barons and Managing Symbiosis 117
14. CHAPTER 6 On Delivering the Consumer-Citizen: New Pedagogies and Their Affective Economies 138
15. CHAPTER 7 Tuning Up and Tuning In: How the European Bologna Process Is Influencing Students’ Time of Study 156
16. PART III Managing the Risk University – Research, Ranking and Reputation
17. CHAPTER 8 The Causes, Mechanisms and Consequences of Reputational Risk Management of Universities and the Higher Education Sector 175
18. CHAPTER 9 The Rise and Rise of the Performance-Based Research Fund? 193
19. CHAPTER 10 Evaluating Academic Research: Ambivalence, Anxiety and Audit in the Risk University 213
20. CHAPTER 11 The Ethics of University Ethics Committees: Risk Management and the Research Imagination 229
21. PART IV Reviving the Public University - Alternative Visions
22. CHAPTER 12 Who Will Win the Global Hunger Games? The Emerging Significance of Research Universities in the International Relations of States 253
23. CHAPTER 13 Resistance in the Neoliberal University 275
24. CHAPTER 14 The University as a Place of Possibilities: Scholarship as Dissensus 296
25. CHAPTER 15 Crisis, Critique and the Contemporary University: Reinventing the Future 312
26. Index 333