Andrew Ross explains the Global U phenomenon and also why talk about “corporate university” is a lazy shorthand:

In all likelihood, we are living through the formative stages of a mode of production marked by a quasi-convergence of the academy and the knowledge corporation. Neither is what it used to be; both are mutating into new species that share and trade many characteristics. These changes are part and parcel of the economic environment in which they function; where, on the one side, a public commons unobtrusively segues into a marketplace of ideas, and a career secured by stable professional norms morphs into a contract-driven livelihood hedged by entrepreneurial risks; and, on the other side, where the busy hustle for a lucrative patent or a copyright gets dressed up as a protection for creative workers; and the restless hunt for emerging markets masquerades as a quest to further international exchange or democratization.

Via the indefatigable Robin Varghese

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