Abstract
Anti-intellectual pressures on colleges and universities are not only external; they are generated by colleges and universities themselves. The corporatization agenda, seen in calls to run universities "more like businesses," has produced a managerial approach to education that is fundamentally hostile to free intellectual endeavor. The idea that higher education is not about the common good, but about individual improvement is a major source of anti-intellectualism. The appropriate response to an overly "practical" vision of education, however, is not to retreat into an ivory tower. The clash of ideas cannot always be clean and civil; it must sometimes be messy and boisterous.
Recommended Citation
Reichman, Henry
(2017)
"Anti-Intellectualism, Corporatization, and the University,"
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy: Vol. 9, Article 2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58188/1941-8043.1735
Available at:
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/jcba/vol9/iss1/2
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.58188/1941-8043.1735
