[Fdu] talk: Academic Disaster Capitalism

[Cynthia Wright]

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CUPE 3903 Presents 
Professor Marc Bousquet

Title: Academic Disaster Capitalism

Date: Wednesday, September 23 5:30 – 7:00 pm.

Location: VC 135



We often speak about systems of higher education as being “broken” or “dysfunctional.” 
This is a fundamental misconception of our predicament. Our circumstances are not accidental.
They are the calculated result of academic disaster capitalism, an intentional culture of permanent
crisis created by lawmakers, corporate profiteers and education management. 



Under the planned regime of academic disaster capitalism, campuses have become adept at surviving
as institutions—nimbly converting disaster for the public into revenue streams for themselves. While
helping to impose austerity on individual students, working professionals and the public, campus
bureaucracies across North America—especially those at graduate and professional schools--massively
enriched themselves in the form of splendid new buildings, soaring endowments, and large investments 
in new enterprise.



Marc Bousquet is an Associate Professor of Film and Media at Emory University. He is the author of the
well-known critique of managed higher education, How the University Works: Higher Education and the
Low-Wage Nation (NYU Press, 2008) and is preparing a sequel, Monetizing the Student, under contract 
to Johns Hopkins University Press. He is a frequent contributor to The Chronicle of Higher Education, 
co-editor of The Politics of Information: The Electronic Mediation of Social Change (Alt-X, 2004), 
and coeditor of Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers (SIUP, 2004). He founded Workplace:
A Journal of Academic Labor and has served on the editorial board of several journals, such as AAUP's Academe. 


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