Death of the Public University?

Susan Wright is Professor of Educational Anthropology at Aarhus University and Director of the Centre for Higher Education Futures (CHEF). She coordinated the EU project ‘University Reform, Globalisation and Europeanisation’ and the EU ITN project ‘Universities in the Knowledge Economy’ in Europe and the Asia-Pacific Rim. She co-edits (with Penny Welch) the journal LATISS (Learning and Teaching: International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences) and with Cris Shore and Davide Peró published Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Anatomy of Contemporary Power (2011, Berghahn).

• List of Illustrations, Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Privatizing the Public University: Key Trends, Countertrends and AlternativesCris Shore and Susan WrightPART I: REDEFINING THE MISSION AND MEANING OF THE UNIVERSITYChapter 1. Universities in Britain and the Spirit of ’45John MorganChapter 2. Managing the Third Mission: Reform or Reinvention of the Public University?Nick Lewis and Cris ShoreChapter 3. Universities in the Competition State: Lessons from DenmarkSusan Wright and Jakob Williams ØrbergChapter 4. Leadership in Higher Education: A Critical Feminist Perspective on Global RestructuringJill BlackmorePART II: PERFORMING THE NEW UNIVERSITY - NEW PRIORITIES, NEW SUBJECTSChapter 5. Science/ Industry Collaboration: Bugs, Project Barons and Managing SymbiosisBirgitte Gorm HansenChapter 6. On Delivering the Consumer-Citizen: New Pedagogies and Their Affective EconomiesBarbara M. GrantChapter 7. Tuning Up and Tuning In: How the European Bologna Process Is Influencing Students’ Time of StudyGritt B. Nielsen and Laura Louise SarauwPART III: MANAGING THE RISK UNIVERSITY - RESEARCH, RANKING AND REPUTATIONChapter 8. The Causes, Mechanisms and Consequences of Reputational Risk Management of Universities and the HigherEducation SectorRoger DaleChapter 9. The Rise and Rise of the Performance-Based Research Fund?Bruce CurtisChapter 10. Evaluating Academic Research: Ambivalence, Anxiety and Audit in the Risk UniversityLisa LucasChapter 11. The Ethics of University Ethics Committees: Risk Management and the Research ImaginationTamara Kohn and Cris ShorePART IV: REVIVING THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY - ALTERNATIVE VISIONSChapter 12. Who Will Win the Global Hunger Games? The Emerging Significance of Research Universities in the International Relations of StatesChristopher TremewanChapter 13. Resistance in the Neoliberal UniversitySandra GreyChapter 14. The University as a Place of Possibilities: Scholarship as DissensusSean Sturm and Stephen TurnerChapter 15. Crisis, Critique and the Contemporary University: Reinventing the FutureSusan L. RobertsonIndex

“…this book makes a unique and ethnographically-based contribution to the study of universities. Chapters are well written and avoid repetition, despite their overlapping concerns. Finally, as Shore and Wright note in their introduction, the volume focuses on contexts in the Global North, where the ‘neoliberal’ university is seen as most pervasive and enduring. Explorations of public universities elsewhere, which have received virtually no attention to date, may in future build on the work presented here, exposing further radical possibilities.” • Anthropological Forum“The book is a challenging approach to higher education studies and beyond. Dynamically questioning the relationship between the university and the dominant political economy at present, this book assumes a multidisciplinary approach and brings together macro and micro level analyses allowing the transformations in contemporary higher education to be mapped.” • António M. Magalhães, University of Porto