Sheila Slaughter

Bio: Sheila Slaughter is an academic researcher from University of Georgia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Higher education & Capitalism. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 72 publications receiving 8990 citations. Previous affiliations of Sheila Slaughter include University of Arizona & University at Buffalo.

Academic Capitalism: Politics, Policies, and the Entrepreneurial University

Abstract: The globalization of the political economy at the end of the twentieth century is destabilizing the patterns of university professional work developed over the past hundred years. One of the major changes that has taken place as a result of globalization is that faculty, who were previously situated between capital and labor, are now positioned squarely in the marketplace. To grasp the extent of changes taking place and to understand the forces of change, Academic Capitalism examines the current state of academic careers and institutions, with a particular focus on public research universities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. In this wide-ranging analysis, Slaughter and Leslie leave no aspect of academic work unexplored: undergraduate and graduate education, teaching and research, student aid policies, and federal research policies. All are part of the equation. The authors pay particular attention to how faculty spend their time, what forces drive their choices of activities, and what this means for higher education.

Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education

Abstract: As colleges and universities become more entrepreneurial in a post-industrial economy, they focus on knowledge less as a public good than as a commodity to be capitalized on in profit-oriented activities. In Academic Capitalism and the New Economy, higher education scholars Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades detail the aggressive engagement of U.S. higher education institutions in the knowledge-based economy and analyze the efforts of colleges and universities to develop, market, and sell research products, educational services, and consumer goods in the private marketplace. Slaughter and Rhoades track changes in policy and practice, revealing new social networks and circuits of knowledge creation and dissemination, as well as new organizational structures and expanded managerial capacity to link higher education institutions and markets. They depict an ascendant academic capitalist knowledge/learning regime expressed in faculty work, departmental activity, and administrative behavior. Clarifying the regime's internal contradictions, they note the public subsidies embedded in new revenue streams and the shift in emphasis from serving student customers to leveraging resources from them. Defining the terms of academic capitalism in the new economy, this groundbreaking study offers essential insights into the trajectory of American higher education.

Global Education Inc: new policy networks and the neo-liberal imaginary

Abstract: , by Stephen J Ball, Abingdon, Routledge, 2012, 163 pp, £2599 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-41-568410-1 We are having to be alert All of us around the globe The world is changing fast Its essential

Expanding and Elaborating the Concept of Academic Capitalism

Abstract: In our recent book, Academic Capitalism: Politics, Policies and the Entrepreneurial University (Slaughter and Leslie, 1997), we used the term ‘academic capitalism’ to define the way public research universities were responding to neoliberal tendencies to treat higher education policy as a subset of economic policy (Slaughter and Rhoades, 2000). In this policy environment faculty and professional staff increasingly must expend their human capital stocks in competitive environments. The implication is that some university employees are simultaneously employed by the public sector and are increasingly autonomous of it. They are academics who act as capitalists from within the public sector: they are state-subsidized entrepreneurs.1 Academic capitalism deals with market and market-like behaviors on the part of universities and faculty. Market-like behaviors refer to institutional and faculty competition for monies, whether these are from external grants and contracts, endowment funds, university–industry partnerships, institutional investment in professors’ spin-off companies, student tuition and fees, or some other revenue-generating activity. What makes these activities market-like is that they involve competition for funds from external resource providers. If institutions and faculty are not successful, there is no bureaucratic recourse; they do without. Market behaviors refer to for-profit activity on the part of institutions, activity such as patenting and subsequent royalty and licensing agreements, spin-off companies, arms-length corporations (corporations that are related to universities in terms of personnel and goals, but are chartered legally as separate entities), and university–industry partnerships when these have a profit component. Market activity also covers more mundane operations, such as the sale of products and services from educational endeavors, for example logos and sports paraphernalia, profit-sharing with food services and bookstores and the like. Volume 8(2): 154–161 Copyright © 2001 SAGE (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi)

In a Different Voice. Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA (Harvard University Press) 1982.

Abstract: Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index

Regression Diagnostics: Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity

Abstract: 1. Introduction and Overview. 2. Detecting Influential Observations and Outliers. 3. Detecting and Assessing Collinearity. 4. Applications and Remedies. 5. Research Issues and Directions for Extensions. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.

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Higher education : handbook of theory and research

Abstract: 1. The Complexity of Higher Education: a Career in Academics and Activism Philip G. Altbach.- 2. Advancing an Intersectionality Framework in Higher Education: Power and Latino Postsecondary Opportunity Anne-Marie Nunez.- 3. Student Veterans in Higher Education David T. Vacchi and Joseph B. Berger.- 4. The Changing Nature of Cultural Capital Jenna R. Sablan and William G. Tierney.- 5. The Culturally Engaging Campus Environments (CECE) Model: A New Theory of Success among Racially Diverse College Student Populations Samuel D. Museus.- 6. Organizational Identity in Higher Education: Conceptual and Empirical Perspectives David J. Weerts, Gwendolyn H. Freed and Christopher C. Morphew.- 7. Student Ratings of Instruction in College and University Courses Stephen L. Benton and William E. Cashin.- 8. College Enrollment: an Economic Analysis Leslie S. Stratton.- 9. The Welding of Opposite Views: Land-Grant Historiography at 150 Years Nathan M. Sorber and Roger L. Geiger.- 10. The Completion Agenda: The Unintended Consequences for Equity in Community Colleges Jaime Lester.- 11. Using IPEDS for Panel Analyses: Core Concepts, Data Challenges, and Empirical Applications Ozan Jaquette and Edna E. Parra.- 12. Toward a Better Understanding of Equity in Higher Education Finance and Policy Luciana Dar.

Will the Real Smart City Please Stand Up?: Intelligent, progressive or entrepreneurial?

Abstract: Debates about the future of urban development in many Western countries have been increasingly influenced by discussions of smart cities. Yet despite numerous examples of this ‘urban labelling’ phenomenon, we know surprisingly little about so‐called smart cities, particularly in terms of what the label ideologically reveals as well as hides. Due to its lack of definitional precision, not to mention an underlying self‐congratulatory tendency, the main thrust of this article is to provide a preliminary critical polemic against some of the more rhetorical aspects of smart cities. The primary focus is on the labelling process adopted by some designated smart cities, with a view to problematizing a range of elements that supposedly characterize this new urban form, as well as question some of the underlying assumptions/contradictions hidden within the concept. To aid this critique, the article explores to what extent labelled smart cities can be understood as a high‐tech variation of the ‘entrepreneurial city’...