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Academic capitalism and the entrepreneurial university: some perspectives from the Americas

2018; UNIVERSIDADE DO OESTE DE SANTA CATARINA; Volume: 43; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.18593/r.v43i1.13088

2177-6059

Patrícia Somers, Coreen Davis, Jessica J. Fry, Lisa Jasinski, Elida Lee,

Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis

Since the Worldwide Financial Crisis of 2008, higher education institutions around the world have been forced to change their financial practices to focus on the bottom line. One such approach is academic capitalism, the heart of which is the entrepreneurial university which views faculty members as producers of capital (not educators), students as consumers (not learners), and business/industry, accreditors, and NGOs as valued business partners. This article defines academic capitalism, reviews the research literature, presents perspectives of academic capitalism in the Americas and discusses the implications of academic capitalism for Latin America. The article ends using anthropophagi to assess what is useful about academic capitalism for Brazil.