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Record W2060024691 · doi:10.1177/1532708612446419

Universities Gone Wild

2012· article· en· W2060024691 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueCulture Studies &#x2194 Critical Methodologies · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAcademic Freedom and Politics
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScholarshipInstitutionEntertainmentState (computer science)Media studiesPoliticsPower (physics)SociologyDemocracyNarrativeLanguage changeHigher educationPolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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This article argues that the Penn State scandal both symbolizes the corruption of higher education by big money, big sports, and corporate power and points to what we describe as a symptom of the war on youth. Penn State, like many of its counterparts, has become a corporate university caught in the grip of the military-industrial-academic complex rather than an institution driven by public values and ethical considerations. We argue that the Penn State scandal reveals a hidden order of politics that is a paradigmatic example of mission drift, one largely marked by a retreat from its role as a vital democratic public sphere to an institution willing to subordinate educational values to market values. Stuck in what might be called “an output fundamentalism,” Penn State like many other universities now prioritizes market mechanisms that emphasize performance measures that subordinate and tarnish scholarship with an emphasis on bringing in bigger grants, expanding profits, and narrating itself through the celebrity culture of sports. One consequence is that young people are increasingly defined primarily in market terms and subject to modes of education run like factory assembly lines and shaped in the image of shopping malls and high end entertainment complexes. And as the case of serial abuse that took place on the Penn State campus reveals, they are also considered disposable. We examine this scandal within a wide range of registers and argue that the scandal itself cannot be viewed simply through as a narrative about sexual abuse, a fall from grace for the university, or as a tragic commentary on the career of Coach Joe Paterno.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.020
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.800
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.020
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.005
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.223
GPT teacher head0.479
Teacher spread0.257 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it