{"id":8578,"date":"2012-02-20T12:11:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T20:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8578"},"modified":"2012-02-20T12:13:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T20:13:54","slug":"the-birth-of-critical-university-studies-the-birth-of-critical-university-studies-the-birth-of-critical-university-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/02\/the-birth-of-critical-university-studies-the-birth-of-critical-university-studies-the-birth-of-critical-university-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"The birth of critical university studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle Review: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/An-Emerging-Field-Deconstructs\/130791\/?sid=cr&#038;utm_source=cr&#038;utm_medium=en\">Deconstructing Academe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Jeffrey J. Williams<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two decades in the United States, there has been a new wave of criticism of higher education. Much of it has condemned the rise of &#8220;academic capitalism&#8221; and the corporatization of the university; a substantial wing has focused on the deteriorating conditions of academic labor; and some of it has pointed out the problems of students and their escalating debt. A good deal of this new work comes from literary and cultural critics, although it also includes those from education, history, sociology, and labor studies. This wave constitutes what Heather Steffen, a graduate student in literary and cultural studies with whom I have worked at Carnegie Mellon University, and I think is an emerging field of &#8220;critical university studies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle Review: Deconstructing Academe By Jeffrey J. Williams Over the past two decades in the United States, there has been a new wave of criticism of higher education. Much of it has condemned the rise of &#8220;academic capitalism&#8221; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/02\/the-birth-of-critical-university-studies-the-birth-of-critical-university-studies-the-birth-of-critical-university-studies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747],"tags":[1288933,406496,406497],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-academics","tag-critical-university-studies","tag-jeffrey-j-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8580,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions\/8580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}