The Financialized University Under Threat
Slides for talks I'll give this week at UC Berkeley and Stanford
I’m going to give talks at UC Berkeley and Stanford this week about “The Financialized University Under Threat.” If you’d like details to attend either talk, just reply to this email!
Below are my draft slides for the talk. As a preface, I will argue that financialization has both created both vulnerabilities and resources for the defense of the university.
On the one hand, financialization has increased inequalities involving universities that fuel broad public resentment.
On the other hand, financialization has provided elite schools with massive resources for university autonomy. It has also provided elite schools with embedding social ties to that connect them to powerful potential allies.
My argument offers insights for leveraging financial elite ties to defend the university from Trump’s immediate. It also suggests how deleveraging financial ties in the longer run could help revitalize the universities for broad public benefit.
