The Financialization of the University (&UC)

Financialization general

• handbook of financial geography
• debt collective
• debt: the first 5000 years
• Dark Finance (margin of europe)
• financialization and the household
• the financialization of the american economy
• the financialization of education

Higher edu financialization data

• 2016 socio-economic review (returns and costs across four types of transaction)
• higher edu dive finance
• higher ed finance reform, “perceptions”
• state investment in higher ed long term outcome
• uni endowment, impact on financial aid
• higher edu funding in california
• journal of collective bargaining in the academy analysis
• university of cincinnati

propoganda & bs by UC and more

• financial aids, four ways to help families
• UC “economic impact”
• UC investor relation site
• “the financially resilient university”
• the rising financial precarity of universities
• higher edu financial realities
• financial aid scams by unis
• higher edu financial stress
• UC funding public ed & k-12
• UC making students debt free
• UC debt policies
• UC 23-24 budget
• UC accountability report
• UCB “leaders” addressing “financial challenges”

Opposition analysis

• school optimism and debt (a dissertation!)
• opposing university financialization
• the failure of financialized higher edu
• uni becoming giant piggy banks
• bankers in the ivory tower
  • book talk at brown 2022
  • UC specific article
• 2022 strike related analysis
• Jacobin, Exploitation Machine
• blackstone related
• privatization of higher ed and problems
• confronting the corporate university
• predatory finance & fight back
• higher edu becomes wall street, teen vogue