Higher Education and Disaster Capitalism in the Age of COVID-19

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This book reveals the layered effects of the corporatization of higher education, situated within the phenomenon of disaster capitalism. The authors argue that higher education administrators have seized on the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to advance a corporate higher education agenda consistent with the principles of disaster capitalism. This crisis deeply impacts what and how students in the United States learn, who gets to learn, and the very mission of the academy. Chapters also address neoliberalism as a policy statement that has reshaped and continues to shape higher education in the United States and in much of Western societies.
This book reveals the layered effects of the corporatization of higher education, situated within the phenomenon of disaster capitalism. The authors argue that higher education administrators have seized on the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to advance a corporate higher education agenda consistent with the principles of disaster capitalism. This crisis deeply impacts what and how students in the United States learn, who gets to learn, and the very mission of the academy. Chapters also address neoliberalism as a policy statement that has reshaped and continues to shape higher education in the United States and in much of Western societies.
Offers new cataloging of the policies and practices of disaster capitalism that will contribute to social and critical theory Incorporates lived experiences of the authors as higher education administrators Includes a set of recommendations for resistance that are both theoretically and practically informed

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Marina Vujnovic

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Academic capitalism Higher Education disaster capitalism Covid-19 Academic resistance neoliberalism shared governance pandemic

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Vujnovic and Foster's Higher Education and Disaster Capitalism is essential for understanding the state of play in contemporary American higher education. Their work provides a theoretical and conceptual grounding for understanding privatization as a large-scale phenomenon while situating the shifts in practice on the ground in context so that faculty, administrators, and advocates can understand from a bird's eye view what role they play.-Stephanie Hall, Senior Fellow, The Century FoundationMarina Vujnovic and Johanna Foster have vividly shown that covid-19 both exposed and worsened the business of higher education. This book is a must-read for anyone wondering what went wrong on campuses across the country. Their personal perspective and scholarly research deftly shows that the academy can never go back to their pre-pandemic “normal.”  -Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Associate Professor of History, Loyola University ChicagoCOVID and disaster capitalist opportunism have laid waste to college campuses and devastated the lives of faculty, staff, and students. Yet this precipitous chapter in higher education’s history has also sparked visible resistance. In these contradictory conditions, Higher Education and Disaster Capitalism in the Age of COVID 19 provides needed orientation: a comprehensive examination of how higher education has been rendered vulnerable to vampiric profiteers plus a roadmap to how faculty can join—and are joining—other workers to fight back. In this indispensable volume for our moment, Vujnovic and Foster arm readers to be both “traitors to the myth” that higher education has ever existed free from capitalist aims and injuries and “keepers of the dream” that through mass intersectional movements another kind of university, one in service to radical democracy and freedom, can be built.Nancy Welch, Professor of English Emerita, University of Vermont
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