Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy: Action Research in Higher Education

Public universities are in crisis, waning in their role as central institutions within democratic societies. Denunciations are abundant, but analyses of the causes and proposals to re—create public universities are not. Based on extensive experience with Action Research—based organizational change in universities and private sector organizations, Levin and Greenwood analyze the wreckage created by neoliberal academic administrators and policymakers. The authors argue that public universitie...