Investigates the impact that certain globalizing practices have
on European and American universities. Due to dwindling resources
and the ideology of privatization, universities are becoming more
corporatized and managerial. The authors investigate the
consequences of these changes on the lives of academics and analyze
how globalizing practices such as managerialism, accountability,
and employment flexibility penetrate different universities.
Globalization is a contested term. It exists in the form of an
integrated world economy and global communication networks. Along
with this material world, politicians have created a neoliberal
ideology that exhorts nation states to open up their economies to
free trade, reduce their public sector, and allow market forces to
reshape their public agencies. In effect, this means a reduced role
for government, lower taxes, and diminishing funds for public
institutions like universities. The underlying thesis of this book
is that globalization is not an inexorable force. All nations need
to debate its consequences. The authors analyze how globalizing
practices are penetrating universities. Are they creating a certain
uniformity? Are academics adapting to or resisting particular
globalizing practices?
The premise at the beginning of the study was that European
universities were responding differently to globalizing practices
than Anglo-American universities. This premise was confirmed as
some universities saw certain globalizing practices as inevitable
and other universities resisted them. The authors asked academics
and key managers how their funding had changed, and which
accountability mechanisms their universities adopted. They also
investigated the use of the Internet in their teaching. They found
differences between European and American universities in their
approach to permanent employment. The French and Norwegian
universities were maintaining many of their traditional values and
only the Dutch university showed some movement towards the
globalizing practices, which American universities were more
readily adopting.
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