Universities across North America have spent decades adopting corporate management practices — and the bill is now coming due. Administrative bloat, precarious teaching contracts and revenue-chasing programs have steadily displaced the educational mission these institutions were built for.
The Real News examines how treating higher learning as a profit-driven enterprise has left campuses financially brittle and academically diminished, and why the current wave of closures and cuts was entirely predictable.
Originally published by The Real News Network.
