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Discourses and Strategic Visions: The U.S. Research University as an Institutional Manifestation of Neoliberalism in a Global Era

Queen’s University, Belfast

David C. Perry

University of Illinois at Chicago

It is argued widely that the academy today is in the process of significant change—in the institutional assumptions of what constitutes the university and the construction of knowledge and in its relations with the city and the world. This article addresses the evolution of the modern university in the context of the discourses of contemporary globalizing institutions. Further, it empirically assesses the organizational priorities of U.S. research universities in light of the application of these discourses to their objectives and practices, finding that they are playing a key role in the formal representation of the institutional direction, goals, and values of American higher education.

Key Words: discourse processes • postsecondary education • educational policy • qualitative research

This version was published on March 1, 2009

American Educational Research Journal, Vol. 46, No. 1, 115-144 (2009)
DOI: 10.3102/0002831208322180


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