Please read below statement:

1. What is meant by neo-liberalism/what are some tenets of neo-liberalism?

2. According to Hanley and theorists of academic capitalism, in academic capitalism who

prevails?

3. Has academic capitalism increased tuitions or decreased tuitions at universities? How so

or why not?

4. According to the article on students as consumers, how are students consumers? How

are students managers? How are students commodities?

5. According to the article on students as consumers, which of the ideological perspectives

(communitarian, social liberal, radical democratic or republican) most closely aligns with

your sensibilities and why? (Can choose more than 1).

6. According to Giroux, what is critical pedagogy and how does it relate to imagination?

7. According to Giroux, what is neoliberalism's relationship to our schooling system?

8. According to the article Exclusion and Equity, what is performance-based funding? /How

does competition play out at the university in relation to the market?

Article one:

Taxpayer Subsidies for Most Colleges and Universities Average Between $8,000 to More than $100,000

for Each Bachelor’s Degree, New Study Finds | American Institutes for Research (air.org)