The Corporatization of Universities and Unions as Agents of Resistance
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Corporate interests, partnerships, values, and rationalities increasingly govern the University. This essay examines the increasing corporatization of the university and its consequences for the university's role in the public sphere and education as a public good. It first examines five dimensions of corporatization of the university: managerial campus governance through corporate values, practices, and objectives; increasingly close relationships with private businesses in the context of donations as well as research agendas; transformations in curricular and educational content and recruitment; law schools' specific turn to corporate values, reference points, and modes of practice; the permeation of the idea of the "student as customer"; and expanding securitization and measures to curtail free speech and public debate. Finally, it turns to the ways that campus faculty and staff unions are able to counter some of the pressures of corporatization.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.017 | 0.036 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.059 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.021 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.011 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".