Universities and the Public Sphere

Brian Pusser is Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Center for the Study of Higher Education, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia. Ken Kempner is Professor of Education and International Studies and former Dean of Social Sciences at Southern Oregon University. Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. Imanol Ordorika is a Professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

• 1. Introduction and Overview of the Book, Brian Pusser, Ken Kempner, Simon Marginson, and Imanol Ordorika2. The "Public" Contribution of Universities in an Increasingly Global World, Simon Marginson3. Power and Authority in the Creation of a Public Sphere Through Higher Education, Brian Pusser4. The Global Sorting Machine: An Examination of Neo-racism Among International Students and Postdocs, Jenny J. Lee and Brendan Cantwell5. Reconsidering the Realities of the International Student Market: A Perspective from Japan and East Asia, Akiyoshi Yonezawa and Hugo Horta 6. University Rankings, Global Models, and Emerging Hegemony: Critical Analysis from Japan, Mayumi Ishikawa 7. The Corporatization of National Universities in Finland, Jussi Välimaa8. Negotiating Race and Gender Identity in the Knowledge Age: The Case of South African Universities, Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela 9. The Broken Promise of Neoliberal Restructuring of South African Higher Education, Ivor Baatjes, Carol Anne Spreen and Salim Vally 10. Higher Education and the Public Sphere in Angola, Ken Kempner and Ana Jurema11. Selling Out Academia?: Higher Education, Economic Crises and Freire’s Generative Themes, Greg William Misiaszek, Lauren Ila Jones, and Carlos Alberto Torres 12. Post Neoliberalism: The Professional Identity of Faculty off the Tenure-track, John S. Levin, Genevieve Shaker and Richard Wagoner13. Chameleon's Agenda: Transformations of Private Universities within the Framework of Public Higher Education Policies in Mexico, Roberto Rodriguez-Gomez and Imanol Ordorika

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