Faculty have largely accepted the erosion of their university governing power

Evidence

It is remarkable how quickly all strata in public universities—staff, faculty, administrators, students—have grown accustomed to the saturation of university life by neoliberal rationality, metrics, and principles of governance. Faculty are used to corporately funded research centers, professorships, programs and departments and have, with a few exceptions, largely accepted the erosion of their power to govern the university. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 395

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that faculty ‘largely accepted’ power erosion is asserted more than documented — worth probing whether evidence supports this or if it is normative lament.
• XREF: connects to: Corporate funders now seek direct control over university faculty hiring. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 698; University autonomy is hollow because faculty lack control over budgets. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 368; Tenure-track conformity to power precedes and explains academic quietism — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 325 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• University autonomy is hollow because faculty lack control over budgets. #corroborates (0.90) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 368
• Neoliberal university governance subordinates academic freedom to institutional transactions #expands (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 663
• Tenure-track conformity to power precedes and explains academic quietism #corroborates (0.80) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 325