The Slow Death Of The University

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Recent reforms in higher education are threatening the independence of Turkish universities. Californias public higher education system is in other words dying a slow death. This happened in South Korea but it might have taken place almost anywhere on the planet.

The evidence is clear.

Universities Inc Twilight of the Professors Elite Universities Are Turning Our Kids Into Corporate Stooges and The Professors Literature of Protest and An Education Worth Fighting For. If you turn a university into a corporation you limit its lifespan and should expect it to die after a few decades. For the Chronicle of Higher Education Terry Eagleton reflects on the slow death of the university as a center of human critique He worries that as British universities have been forced to contend with the mounting pressures of global capitalism they are increasingly making changes that threaten traditional academic life. The university has been terminating a lot of administrator and lecturer contracts has cut down faculty pay by 5 and initiated freezes on new hires.