Problems on Campus? Blame ‘Neoliberalism,’ Shoddy Study Says

Arecent academic study has found a new bogeyman on campus: “neoliberalism.” And it’s supposedly a driving force behind college student-government campaigns, at least in Florida.

Authors Michael A. Goodman, Sarah Simi Cohen, Alexa Lee Arndt, and Ben Parks are all employed at public universities. They published their study in the Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship, a peer-reviewed social-science journal of the National Association of Campus Activities (NACA). It investigated 18 student-government campaigns across nine Florida colleges and universities and found that “much like higher education more broadly, student governments, in turn, are complicit in upholding neoliberalism and capitalism in higher education.”

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Arecent academic study has found a new bogeyman on campus: “neoliberalism.” And it’s supposedly a driving force behind college student-government campaigns, at least in Florida.

Authors Michael A. Goodman, Sarah Simi Cohen, Alexa Lee Arndt, and Ben Parks are all employed at public universities. They published their study in the Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship, a peer-reviewed social-science journal of the National Association of Campus Activities (NACA). It investigated 18 student-government campaigns across nine Florida colleges and universities and found that “much like higher education more broadly, student governments, in turn, are complicit in upholding neoliberalism and capitalism in higher education.”