Halffman Willem, Radder Hans
Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Faculty of Science, Mailbox 77, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Department of Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Minerva. 2015;53(2):165-187. doi: 10.1007/s11024-015-9270-9.
Universities are occupied by management, a regime obsessed with 'accountability' through measurement, increased competition, efficiency, 'excellence', and misconceived economic salvation. Given the occupation's absurd side-effects, we ask ourselves how management has succeeded in taking over our precious universities. An alternative vision for the academic future consists of a public university, more akin to a socially engaged knowledge commons than to a corporation. We suggest some provocative measures to bring about such a university. However, as management seems impervious to cogent arguments, such changes can only happen if academics take action. Hence, we explore several strategies for a renewed university politics.
大学被管理层占据，这是一个痴迷于通过衡量、加剧竞争、提高效率、追求“卓越”以及错误的经济救赎来实现“问责制”的体制。鉴于这种占据所带来的荒谬副作用，我们不禁自问，管理层是如何成功掌控我们宝贵的大学的。对学术未来的另一种愿景是建立一所公立大学，它更像是一个致力于社会参与的知识共享空间，而非一家公司。我们提出了一些具有启发性的措施来打造这样一所大学。然而，由于管理层似乎对有说服力的论点无动于衷，只有学者采取行动，这种变革才有可能发生。因此，我们探索了几种推动大学政治革新的策略。
