Tuesday 10 March 2015

Towards the End of the University as we Knew It (II). |

Towards the End of the University as we Knew It (II). |

 Argentinian semiotician (École des Hautes Études) and professor at Duke University, Walter D. Mignolo
[...]Readings was already seeing the university’ corporate turn in the US. Shortly after, European, Asian, Latin American, African universities began to follow suit. The corporate turn doesn’t refer to universities being funded by corporations, but to the corporate values that is increasingly dominating its vision and mission. But, again, to hear about the effect that corporatization of learning has in graduate students, shall give all of us pause.