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Direct linkFrances, Raelene – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2016
This article supports Bérubé's conclusion regarding the intellectual health of humanities scholarship. However, it argues that the case of "contingent faculty"--or academics with short-term or casual contracts--is in many respects different in Australia to the situation he outlines for the US. Whilst a variety of funding pressures have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Humanities, Scholarship
Nadolny, Andrew; Ryan, Suzanne – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The McDonaldization of higher education refers to the transformation of universities from knowledge generators to rational service organizations or "McUniversities". This is reflected in the growing dependence on a casualized academic workforce. The article explores the extent to which the McDonaldization thesis applies to universities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Commercialization, Employees
