Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. INTRODUCTION Neoliberalizing Undergraduate Experience 1
6. CHAPTER 1 John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education in the Neoliberal Age 17
7. CHAPTER 2 Undergraduate Research in Veblen’s Vision Idle Curiosity, Bureaucratic Accountancy, and Pecuniary Emulation in Contemporary Higher Education 32
8. CHAPTER 3 Empathy as Industry An Undergraduate Perspective on Neoliberalism and Community Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania 56
9. CHAPTER 4 Dirty Work The Carnival of Service 73
10. CHAPTER 5 No Good Deed Goes Uncounted A Reflection on College Volunteerism 106
11. CHAPTER 6 From Service-Learning to Social Innovation The Development of the Neoliberal in Experiential Learning 112
12. CHAPTER 7 High Hopes and Low Impact Obstacles in Student Research 137
13. CHAPTER 8 The Experience Experts 143
14. CHAPTER 9 Moral Entanglements in Service-Learning 171
15. CHAPTER 10 Engineering Success Performing Neoliberal Subjectivity through Pouring a Bottle of Water 185
16. CHAPTER 11 Caught between Commodification and Audit Concluding Thoughts on the Contradictions in U.S. Higher Education 215
17. Index 235