Journal
MINERVA
Volume 53, Issue 2, Pages 165-187Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11024-015-9270-9
Keywords
Academic politics; Management; The Netherlands; Public university; Academic labour conditions; Political action
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Universities are occupied by management, a regime obsessed with 'accountability' through measurement, increased competition, efficiency, 'excellence', and misconceived economic salvation. Given the occupation's absurd side-effects, we ask ourselves how management has succeeded in taking over our precious universities. An alternative vision for the academic future consists of a public university, more akin to a socially engaged knowledge commons than to a corporation. We suggest some provocative measures to bring about such a university. However, as management seems impervious to cogent arguments, such changes can only happen if academics take action. Hence, we explore several strategies for a renewed university politics.
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