What comes after profit?
A critical look at the vast potential for public higher education in the 21st century
Keywords:
Critical Theory, Public Higher Education, DialecticAbstract
The Top Jobs Act of the 21st Century (TJ21) is a state policy in Virginia which passed the legislature in June of 2011. The policy is supposed to be a blueprint of success for public higher education institutions in Virginia. Yet, this vision of progress may be simplistic and ultimately detrimental to the true progress of Virginia's state institutions. This paper will employ a dialectal lens, borrowed from Critical Theory, to assess the view of progress expounded by TJ21. The intent is to offer a true vision of progress, a dialectal progress which entails the overcoming of contradictions inherent in a state of affairs and arriving at a new, dynamic condition which is always open to further change.
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Newfield, C. (2008). Unmaking the public university: The forty year assault on the middle class. Quincy, MA: Harvard University Press.
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Adorno, T. (1978). Minima moralia: Reflections from a damaged life (translated). New
York, NY: Verso Press.
Adorno, T. (1973). Negative dialectics (translated). New York, NY: Continuum Press.
Adorno, T., & Horkheimer, M. (1969). Dialectic of enlightenment. (2nd ed). Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
Bowen, H. (1996). Investment in learning: The individual and social value of American higher education. (2nd Ed). Introduction by Cameron Fincher. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Transaction publishers.
Dare, D. (2010). The state, bureaucracy and corruption in Nigeria. Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, 8 (3), 39-46.
Finnegan, D. (2001). Origins of the YMCA universities: Organizational adaptations in urban education. History of Higher Education Annual, 21, 47-77.
Fowler, F. (2009). Policy studies for educational leaders: An introduction. (3rd ed). New York, NY: Pearson.
Geiger, R. (1998). The rise and fall of useful knowledge: Higher education for science, agriculture & the mechanics arts, 1850-1875. History of Higher Education Annual, 18, 47-65.
Goan, S., & Cunningham, A. (2008). The Investment payoff: A 50-state analysis of the public and private benefits of higher education. American Academic, 2, 23-38.
Greenwood, D. (1997). New developments in the intergenerational impact of education. International Journal of Educational Research, 27, 503-510.
Habermas, J. (1973). Legitimation crisis. Translated by T. McCarthy. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Hobsbowm, E. (2012). Introduction to the communist manifesto. New York, NY: Verso Press.
Horowitz, H. (1986). The 1960s and the transformation of campus cultures. History of Education Quarterly, 26, 2-38.
Jay, M. (1996). The dialectal imagination: A history of the Frankfurt school and the institute of social research, 1923-1950. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Kellner, D. (1992). Critical theory, Marxism and modernity. (2nd ed). Baltimore, MD:
Johns Hopkins Press.
Lewis, D., & Hearn, J. (2003). The public research university: Serving the public good in new times. New York, NY: University Press of America.
McMahon, W. (1997). Introduction. International Journal of Educational Research, 27, 449-479.
Megill, A. (2002). Karl Marx: The burden of reason. New York, NY: Continuum Press.
Newfield, C. (2008). Unmaking the public university: The forty year assault on the middle class. Quincy, MA: Harvard University Press.
Overtveldt, J. (2007). The Chicago school: How the University of Chicago assembled the thinkers who revolutionized economics and business. Canada: Agate Publishing.
Peet, R. (2009). Unholy trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO. (2nd ed). New York, NY: Zed Books.
Plant, R. (2010). The Neo-liberal state. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Rhoads, R., & Torres, C. (2006). University, state and market: The political economy of globalization in the Americas. Palo Alto: Stanford Press.
Slaughter, S., & Rhoades, G (2004). Academic capitalism and the new economy: Markets, state and higher education. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Sorel, G. (1963). Ethics of violence. In Varieties of classic social theory, edited by Hendrik Ruitenbeek. New York, NY: E.P. Dutton & Co.
Sugrue, M. (2000). “We desired our future rulers to be educated men” South Carolina College, the defense of slavery, and the development of secessionist politics. The American College in the nineteenth century. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
Thelin, J. (2004). The history of American higher education. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Vestrich, R. (2008). The academy under siege: Threats to teaching and learning in American higher education. American Academic, 2, 55-71.
Washburn, J. (2006). University Inc.: The corporate corruption of higher education. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Wolfe, B., & Zuvekas, S. (1997). Nonmarket outcomes of schooling. International Journal of Educational Research, 27, 491-502.
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What comes after profit? : A critical look at the vast potential for public higher education in the 21st century. (2012). Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 1(1), 28-40. https://ojed.org/jise/article/view/1467
