The Future of University Education

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: The Future of University Education....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Academic Freedom in the Corporate University: Squandering Our Inheritance?....Pages 19-38
The University of the Common: Beyond the Contradictions of Higher Education Subsumed under Capital....Pages 39-62
“The Last in the Food Chain”: Dignity of Polish Junior Academics and Doctoral Candidates in the Face of Performance Management....Pages 63-84
The Culture of Control in the Contemporary University....Pages 85-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Living in a World of Foam: Global Ideas, Bubbles, Institutions and the Fairy Tale of Business Education....Pages 111-121
The Future of the University? Social Activism among Young Polish Scholars....Pages 123-144
University as a Terminal: Socio-Material Infrastructure for Post-Neoliberal Society....Pages 145-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
McLearning and the So-Called Knowledge Society: An Essay....Pages 159-183
Neoliberalism’s War against Higher Education and the Role of Public Intellectuals....Pages 185-206
Re-Imagining Business Schools of the Future as Places of Theorizing....Pages 207-225
Re-Integrating the Professional Learner: The Complementarity of Teaching and Research in Academic Life....Pages 227-241
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Escape from the Neo-Liberal Higher Education Prison: A Proposal for a New Digital Communist University....Pages 245-269
A Curious and Collaborative Future....Pages 271-292
Speculations on University Futures in 2025: Corporate Cloning, Intellectual Underground, and a New Critical Awareness....Pages 293-308
2021: A Campus Odyssey....Pages 309-327
Anti-Coda....Pages 329-336
Back Matter....Pages 337-346