On “Academia, Inc.” by Jamie Brownlee
In Academic, Inc., Jamie Brownlee explores the multiple ways that corporatization affects the modern university system. He suggests that Under corporatization, the public mission of the university—which has often emphasized democratic goals and service to the broader community—is being reduced in favour of private and commercial interests. (5) In particular, Brownlee cites mounting tuition costs and the subsequent rise of student debt; the development of the student-consumer; the increasing casualization of the academic workforce as contingent faculty rates rise; the…