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"Creating the Market University" Brown Bag

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December 5, 2013
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Room 100, George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave

The Future of the University Working Group will be reading and discussing Elizabeth Popp Berman’s Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine.  Among the questions that will drive our discussion:

  •          Berman’s book is a history of the transformation of academic science from “economic resource” to “economic engine.”  How and why did this transformation occur, and on what trajectories is academic science heading today? 
  •          Government decisions in the late 1970s and early 1980s created the conditions for this transformation.  What is the situation today, and with what effects on academic science?
  •          What does “public good” mean in the context of market logic?  What other ways might academic science—or other academic activities in the University--be organized as a public good?
  •          Are there other areas/disciplines of the university that either are or could be subsumed under market logic as an “economic engine?”  What does “entrepreneurship” in the humanities or social sciences, for example, look like?

Please plan on joining us, and please bring a brown bag lunch!