Academia, Inc.: How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities

by Jamie Brownlee

Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada's higher education system.

Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two fundamentally incompatible institutions -- the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552667359
• ISBN13: 9781552667354
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"