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- Title
THE RESPONSIBLE PROFESSOR: EAPS AND THE NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY.
- Authors
REUTER, SHELLEY Z.
- Abstract
Universities commonly engage Employee Assistance Programs to help workers with their problems. In this institutional case study of neoliberalism in action, I analyze the EAP newsletters from one Canadian institution I call "Corporate U" in terms of their implications for full-time tenured and tenuretrack faculty. I show how their messaging counterproductively amplifies pressures in today's university to be resilient and perform and be accountable. I take the EAP to be an agent of the university, and as such, their newsletters demonstrate the rise of neoliberal managerialism in academic life. Of particular concern is their individualising tendency to construct "the responsible professor" as an ideal to which all academic workers must now aspire.
- Subjects
UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; EMPLOYEE assistance programs; EMPLOYEE services; EMPLOYEE well-being; NEOLIBERALISM
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2021, Vol 46, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article