title: The Academic Manifesto: From an Occupied to a Public University.
abstract: Universities are occupied by management, a regime obsessed with 'accountability' through measurement, increased competition, efficiency, 'excellence', and misconceived economic salvation. Given the occupation's absurd side-effects, we ask ourselves how management has succeeded in taking over our precious universities. An alternative vision for the academic future consists of a public university, more akin to a socially engaged knowledge commons than to a corporation. We suggest some provocative measures to bring about such a university. However, as management seems impervious to cogent arguments, such changes can only happen if academics take action. Hence, we explore several strategies for a renewed university politics.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Faculty of Science, Mailbox 77, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Willem
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Halffman
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Radder
keywords: Academic labour conditions; Academic politics; Management; Political action; Public university; The Netherlands