Marketized public universities have no reason to fund research fields

Evidence

State universities will survive these sea changes, but what will likely not survive is their core in undergraduate liberal arts education offered by prestigious faculty researchers. Written and oral skills can be developed in writing and speech classes taught by inexpensive lecturers, who can also offer courses in American politics, Latin American literature, and Chinese history. There is no reason for public universities to keep eminent or promising scholars on their payrolls in these fields; indeed, from a fully marketized perspective, there is no reason for the public universities to sustain these research fields at all. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 389

Categorization

• XREF: The disappearance of the citizen-forming mission connects to the book’s overall thesis about economized citizens replacing political subjects. — connects to: Commercial conflicts of interest in science threaten public trust in research — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 857

Broader Connections

• Commercial conflicts of interest in science threaten public trust in research #complicates (0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 857