Carelessness in Higher Education: How the Neoliberal University Shapes the Experiences of Students on the Margins

• In Event: Centering Minoritized Identities Within Organizational Theory

Abstract

This study explores the ways in which neoliberal processes affect how student-parents who are food insecure experience higher education. Data for this study come from a case study of one four-year university in the Northeastern US. In this paper, we use neoliberalism as a frame to examine a move towards “carelessness” in explicit and implicit institutional policy, creating a culture that marginalizes students deemed as out of the mainstream, such as student-parents experiencing food insecurity.

Authors

• Margaret W. Sallee, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Christopher William Kohler, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Joshua Hine, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Luke Haumesser, University at Buffalo - SUNY