Neoliberalism’s influence on American universities: How the business model harms students and society

2021 ◽  
pp. 147821032110066
Author(s):  
Hani Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Optimal Learning ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Optimal Learning Environment

The influence of neoliberalism on colleges and universities leads to conditions that make it difficult for students from low-income families to profit from higher education. It contributes to a less rigorous learning environment and to other consequences that harm various groups of people. This article focuses on how the corporate model that neoliberal ideology promotes leads universities to implement practices that prevent marginalized groups from benefitting from the higher education system. In addition, it mentions how these practices contribute to a less-than-optimal learning environment for many students and to other negative outcomes. Finally, it offers examples of different kinds of activism that can reduce the deleterious effects of neoliberalism.

scholarly journals Current State, Achievements, Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions of Vietnam’s Higher Education in Global Integration

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
De Van Dinh ◽  
Loc Huu Pham
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Current State ◽  
Lower Ranking ◽  
Low Income Families

Over the last decades, Vietnam’s higher education system has made remarkable achievements, and considerable contributions to the task of raising intellectual standards and human resources for the construction, protection, and development of the country. Besides the great achievements mentioned above, education in our country has still contained many weaknesses, shortcomings, and concerning issues. In particular, the quality of mass education, especially tertiary education is still in the lower ranking, the teaching methods are outdated as well as uncreative, conditions for higher education development are still inadequate; moreover, it is difficult for poor families, low-income families, and ethnic minorities to access higher education, besides, some negative phenomena in higher education are slowly solved. In order to resolve these problems, the purpose of this paper is to summarize the achievements and difficulties and to provide directions for building an education based on a solid theoretical foundation, focusing on researching the educational philosophy corresponding to requirements of the era and integration.   Received: 26 December 2020 / Accepted: 27 January 2021 / Published: 5 March 2021

Quantitative Surface Electromyography: Applications in Neuromotor Rehabilitation

Biofeedback ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey E. Bolek
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Theory ◽  
Surface Electromyography ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Contextual Interference ◽  
Explicit Learning ◽  
Motor Impairments ◽  
Optimal Learning ◽  
Optimal Learning Environment ◽  
Basic Learning

Surface electromyography holds great potential in helping patients recover from injuries that result in motor impairments. To be able to assist the patient, the clinician must consider research obtained from the study of implicit/explicit learning, contextual interference, and basic learning theory. Quantitative surface electromyography (QSEMG) is a technique that is constructed around this basic research in order to present the optimal learning environment for the patient.

Access and Mobilization: How Social Capital Relates to Low-Income Youth’s Postsecondary Educational (PSE) Attainment

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariam Ashtiani ◽  
Cynthia Feliciano
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Degree Attainment ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Mentoring Relationships ◽  
College Entry ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Bachelor's Degree Attainment

Youth from advantaged backgrounds have more social relationships that provide access to resources facilitating their educational success than those from low-income families. Does access to and mobilization of social capital also relate to success among the few low-income youth who “overcome the odds” and persist in higher education? Using nationally representative longitudinal data over a 14-year period, this study shows that although access to social capital in families, schools, and communities is positively related to entry into higher education, most forms of adolescent social capital are not independently associated with degree attainment. However, the mobilization of social capital through certain types of mentorship benefits both the college entry and bachelor’s degree attainment of low-income youth, more so than for their more economically advantaged peers. Findings suggest that developing enduring mentoring relationships and new social resources rooted in the higher education context may be especially important in facilitating degree attainment for young adults from low-income backgrounds.

Other Challenges

2018 ◽  
pp. 328-370
Author(s):  
Steven Brint
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Education System ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Low Income Students ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Underrepresented Groups ◽  
The U.S

This chapter discusses other major challenges to the U.S. higher education system: rising costs, online competition, and controversies over permissible speech. These challenges can be interpreted as problems of growth in the context of resource constraints. Cost problems were largely attributable to universities' requirements for sufficient revenues to support larger staffs and new responsibilities within the context of state disinvestment. Online competition was a result of the search for market alternatives to traditional, high-cost residential campuses within the context of an expanding system that included many low-income students. And the conflicts over speech were, in most cases, the by-product of tensions between students from comparatively privileged backgrounds and those from underrepresented groups.

scholarly journals Education Psychologist Priorities in Inclusive Education Context

Pedagogika ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-98
Author(s):  
Ala Petrulytė
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
School Psychologist ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Optimal Learning ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Evaluative Research ◽  
Optimal Learning Environment

One of the most important European Union strategies is development and growth with a help of education, because investment in education is justified economically. Psychologists who work within an education system play an important role. In this article we describe the priorities of psychologists in education. Important priorities of a school psychologist today are: inclusive education conditions and mental health and well-being of a child. Inclusive education is a form of education, when using the curriculum, with different teaching methods and assistance, created optimal learning environment for children needs and skills. Inclusive education improves psychological well-being of a child. We present the findings of child’s psychological well-being strengthening, and psychological support in an inclusive education environment: to provide tools of improvement of mental health and learning environment; to monitor the learning conditions and factors, and predict their impact on a child’s psychological well-being; to develop a portfolio of intervention tools on an individual and institutional level of education; to perform evaluative research that evaluates an efficiency of various positive intervention. There is also important cooperation between psychologists, teachers and others specialists.

scholarly journals Global Educational policies and its effects on the academic profession in Brazil

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Ronaipe Machado
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Academic Profession ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
The Status

This paper discusses the relationships between the current situation of professors of higher education institutions in Brazil and the changes that have come about in the Brazilian educational system as it has been affected and guided by neoliberal ideology principles through influence of International Organizations such as the World Bank and the IMF. Concepts like globalization, global governance and neocolonialism in the field of educational policy making achieve strong relevance as one intends to understand and explain the roots that are in the origins of the situation which academic professorate faces in countries like Brazil as well as in many others across the world. As part of this broader world and global context, Brazilian professors have to face similar, and sometimes even tougher challenges, as educational policies regulated by a new educational act have been implemented in the country throughout the last fifteen years. Under the influence of neoliberal ideas, massification and diversification in the higher education system have led to what many scholars call a state of fragmentation of the academic profession, which is characterized by increasing bureaucratization, heavy accountability requirements, inadequate remuneration and insufficient intellectual preparation to meet academic demands. Accountability and university bureaucratization have reduced teachers’ autonomy. The development with the greatest impact on the academic profession is the growing amount of professors with unstable and part-time appointments. As an apparent symptom of the decline of the status of the professoriate, they are paid a low salary to teach a few courses. In such a context, the value of academics is declining and new generations have been unwilling to embrace the academic career. Having well-trained, fairly paid and academically engaged faculty members is as crucial as ever, since countries count on good professors to prepare and form young people to be actively involved in the knowledge-based economy and in the information society.

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