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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