Neoliberalism, Quality Assurance Policy, and the "Dis-Imagination" of Higher Education

• In Event: 75.042 - MTCC Roundtable Session 34
  In Roundtable Session: 75.042-3 - Rethinking Democracy Within and Across

Abstract

This preliminary paper is a critical policy study that seeks to explore Quality Assurance policy enactment during a time of neoliberal restructuring of higher education. Thus, the objective of this research is to offer a critical account of neoliberal globalization and how it is transforming the way in which faculty members in higher education experience their role in the academy. More specifically, this research will explore how neoliberalism, as an economic and political tool, is trying to establish a monolithic system of higher education where ‘quality’ is being advocated at the cost of social equity, exploration and creativity.

Author

• Melanie Lawrence, University of Western Ontario