The Contested Future of Higher Education: Lessons from Alberta

This book contributes to critical university studies by examining the corporatization of higher education at the University of Alberta, placing this experience in a broad comparative context, and drawing attention to aspects of the politics of knowledge that have often been overlooked in this genre.

The chapters in this collection provide a detailed account of the restructuring of higher education by successive neo-liberal governments in Alberta, Canada, with a focus on developments at the U...