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category: Education
published: May 2009
ISBN:9780774858618
publisher: UBC Press

The Exchange University

Corporatization of Academic Culture

edited by Adrienne S. Chan & Donald Fisher

tagged: higher
Description

The Exchange University addresses crucial questions facing today’s university, including the commercialization of research and teaching; intensifying government-university relationships; marketization and commodification; and policy and functional responses within the academy. The book will interest practitioners, students, and academics in educational studies, policy studies, and higher education.

About the Authors

Adrienne S. Chan


Donald Fisher is a professor at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Educational Studies. He currently supervises new research students and has an interest in philanthropy and universities, academic/State/industry relations, marketization and higher education, historical sociology of the social sciences, and sociology of science.
Contributor Notes

Adrienne S. Chan is on faculty in the School of Social Work and Human Services at the University College of the Fraser Valley and is an adjunct professor at the Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training at the University of British Columbia.

 

Donald Fisher is a professor in the Department of Education Studies and co-director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training at UBC.

 

Contributors: Sandra Acker, Paul Axelrod, Adrienne S. Chan, Jo-Anne Dillabough, Donald Fisher, Brigitte Gemme, Yves Gingras, Linda Muzzin, Janice Newson, Claire Polster, Gary Rhoades, Theresa Shanahan, Sheila Slaughter, Jennifer Sumner

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