[lbo-talk] seems 99% sure

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Thu Sep 1 15:25:27 PDT 2011


IIRC, the intellectuals who comprised the Scottish Enlightenment were entrepreneurs. They had to attract and retain students. Smith said that this made the Scottish university better than the English unis where teachers didn't have to attract students in order to make a living.

otherwise, congrats Alan!

At 04:45 PM 9/1/2011, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>This has been the trend since the eighties. I was at U.C. Berkeley since
>this "rationalization" of the university started to happen. Greatly aided
>by the gradual withholding of public funds from the universities.
>
>But "academic entrepreneur" is much to polite a name for it.
>
>Joanna
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Wojtek S" <wsoko52 at gmail.com>
>
>Any new development here?
>
>While we are at this, it seems that universities increasingly turn
>into sweatshops in which academic entrepreneur characters attract
>paying clients and hire cognitariat i.e. workers (such as junior
>faculty or grad students) producing intellectual commodity for these
>clients. Such academic entrepreneur characters not only benefit
>financially from these arrangements, but also seem to become very
>influential within the university system, while the cognitariat works
>for very little if anything at all. It seems that both academic
>entrepreneurs and university administration is happy with this
>division of intellectual labor and does everything they can to keep
>the cognitariat in its place in that system.
>
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