The university’s corporate turn is not a betrayal of liberalism but its logical expression.

Evidence

Giroux: “In the United States, college presidents are now called CEOs and move without apology between interlocking corporate and academic boards. With few exceptions, they are praised as fundraisers but rarely acknowledged for the quality of their ideas. It gets worse. As Adam Bessie points out, ‘the discourse of higher education now resembles what you might hear at a board meeting at a No. 2 pencil-factory, [with its emphasis on] productivity, efficiency, metrics, data-driven value, [all of] which places utter, near-religious faith in this highly technical, market-based view of education.’ ” … Note that Giroux, as much as Nussbaum, predicates too much criticism of corporatizing the university on the notion of liberal democracy (that “true” democracy contradicts this trend), when it is my argument throughout the book that it is precisely liberalism, in both its classical and it late modern forms, that is inherently predisposed to various forms of sovereign domination and exploitation. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 749

Categorization

• XREF: Opposes the common defense that corporatized universities betray ‘true’ liberal democratic values — the same argument structure appears in critiques that treat colonialism as a perversion rather than product of liberalism.