The Corporatization of Student Affairs

This volume explores the tensions between the student affairs foundation of holistic student development and the changing culture of corporatization. While there is ample evidence of neoliberalism in the academic affairs of higher education there is very little to no research to understand how neoliberalism is driving the corporatization of student affairs. This book argues that understanding neoliberalism in student affairs is crucial to student success and the student experience. The authors provide contextualized examples for understanding our positionality within the neoliberal system, as well as practical recommendations on resisting market values as common sense, thereby helping to preserve the profession and to imagine a new one centered on people, equity, and justice.

Accessible to researchers and professionals without a theoretical background in neoliberalism or student affairs Provides a critical lens to coursework across Educational Leadership and Student Affairs MEd, EdD, and PhD programs Offers a unique analysis of student affairs as labor (not just coded as student service)

Auteur

Daniel K. Cairo serves as Special Assistant for Strategy and Operations to the Vice President of Equity Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Utah where he leads campus strategies that situate equity and belonging as key cornerstones to student success . He also served as Interim Dean of Students, Assistant Dean of Students, and Director of the Student Diversity and Inclusion Center at Westminster where he led a strategy for first-generation and low income students that garnished the college as a First Forward Institution by NASPA. Lastly, he also served as Assistant Director at the Campus Advocacy Network at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Victoria Cabal serves as Director of the Office for Student Inclusion and First Ascent Scholars at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. Outside of the University of Utah, Victoria serves as Vice President of the Learner-Centered Educational organization, focused on cultivating partnerships withboth public and private organizations committed to ensuring access to learning opportunities for low-income students in Utah. Victoria holds a Doctorate of Education from the University of Utah, as well as B.A. in Communication, and M.Ed. in School Counseling from Loyola University Chicago. Prior to moving to the Eccles School, Victoria worked as a school counselor where she focused on creating innovative counseling programming to create equity across academic experiences.

Résumé
"Daniel K. Cairo and Victoria Cabal's text is an essential addition to the growing literature on neoliberal postsecondary education. ... it can potentially serve as a jumping off point for future research and theorizing on this topic. Student affairs and other postsecondary education administrators will benefit from reading this text as well ... ." (Kirk S. Robinson, Higher Education, Vol. 85 (3), 2023)

Contenu
Chapter 1. Are We All Neoliberal Now?.- Chapter 2. The Corporatization of Higher Education and Student Affairs.- Chapter 3. Student Success Along Narrowed Lines.- Chapter 4. The Impact of Corporate Values on Student Affairs: The Case Study Site.- Chapter 5. Neoliberalism in Student Affairs: A Both/And Proposition.- Chapter 6. Challenging Corporate Values Through Good Sense Solutions.- Chapter 7. The Failed Promise of Neoliberalism: Uncertainty 2020.