Experience of Neoliberal Education

Bonnie Urciuoli is Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Hamilton College. She has published extensively on linguistic and cultural anthropology, specializing in public discourses of race, class and language and particularly the discursive construction of "diversity" in U.S. higher education.

"Conceptually clear, subtle, historically attuned, and drawing upon multiple perspectives, this volume is a breath of fresh - and intellectually quite invigorating - air that speaks to consequential transformations in American higher education and in American society more broadly. A highlight is the combination of more ethnographic, analytical chapters by faculty scholars and quite telling and affecting reflections by undergraduates (or recent graduates)." * Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Neoliberalizing Undergraduate ExperienceBonnie UrciuoliChapter 1. John Dewey's Philosophy of Education in the Neoliberal AgePauline Turner StrongChapter 2. Undergraduate Research in Veblen's Vision: Idle Curiosity, Bureaucratic Accountancy and Pecuniary Emulation in Contemporary Higher EducationRichard HandlerChapter 3. Empathy as Industry: An Undergraduate Perspective on Neoliberalism and Community Engagement at the University of PennsylvaniaJack LaVioletteChapter 4. Dirty Work: The Carnival of ServiceJohn J. Bodinger de Uriarte and Shari JacobsonChapter 5. No Good Deed Goes Uncounted: A Reflection on College VolunteerismSarah BergbauerChapter 6. From Service Learning to Social Innovation: The Development of the Neoliberal in Experiential LearningChaise LaDousaChapter 7. High Hopes and Low Impact: Obstacles in Student ResearchAnastassia BaldrigeChapter 8. The Experience ExpertsBonnie UrciuoliChapter 9. Moral Entanglements in Service LearningChristopher Cai and Usnish MajumdarChapter 10. Engineering Success: Performing Neoliberal Subjectivity Through Pouring a Bottle of WaterAlex PosecznickChapter 11. Caught Between Commodification and Audit: Contradictions in U.S. Higher EducationWesley ShumarIndex