University autonomy is hollow because faculty lack control over budgets.

Evidence

The notion of “university franchise” now belongs to a bygone era. The “autonomy” granted the universities after the crisis of the late 1960s has very little meaning given the fact that practically nowhere do teachers’ groups have the power to decide what the budget of their institution will be; all they can do is allocate the funds that are assigned to them, and only then as the last step in the process. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 368

Categorization

• XREF: Prescient for today’s university corporatization debates (adjunctification, donor-driven budgets). — connects to: Universities offer neither real money nor real power; Faculty have largely accepted the erosion of their university governing power — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 395

Broader Connections

• Universities offer neither real money nor real power #corroborates (0.85)