Corporate funders now seek direct control over university faculty hiring.

Evidence

As part of the plan, JPMorgan will renovate a building to house the program, put up money to pay program faculty and pay a full ride for students seeking a degree, according to an internal university plan. In addition, JPMorgan employees may sit on dissertation committees and advise the university on which faculty members should teach in the program, according to the planning document and a top university official. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 698

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Corporate control over academic staffing extends the tree-as-infrastructure logic of owning the growth itself — here, owning the pipeline of scholars.
• XREF: connects to: A private fund strategized placement of market advocates inside US academia — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 258; A single financier can dominate economics via interlocked corporate boards and faculty placement. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 565; Faculty have largely accepted the erosion of their university governing power — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 395 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Faculty have largely accepted the erosion of their university governing power #expands (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 395