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Revisiting Academic Capitalism in Canada: No Longer the Exception
- The Journal of Higher Education
- The Ohio State University Press
- Volume 81, Number 4, July/August 2010
- pp. 489-514
- 10.1353/jhe.0.0098
- Article
- Additional Information
In Academic Capitalism: Politics, Policies, and the Entrepreneurial University (1997), Slaughter and Leslie found that Canada showed signs of resisting academic capitalism. Changes in postsecondary education funding policies and the emergence of new commercialization initiatives are evidence that Canada is certainly no longer, and perhaps never was, the "exception" to academic capitalism.