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To what extent has university service work changed in the US universities with the shift to the knowledge economy? In this chapter, we consider whether and the ways in which a new knowledge/learning regime in the USA is translating into new forms of service/outreach for faculty and universities. The chapter reports on findings from a research project on the changing nature of faculty work and service in the new global economy. Although there is evidence of the continued significance of longstanding conceptions of service, such as committee work in universities and professional organizations, there is also evidence of emergent forms of outreach and partnership that speak to the ways faculty and universities are developing new circuits of knowledge with new types of professional employees (non-tenure-track faculty) and organization (interstitial units) [see Slaughter, S., & Rhoades, G. (2004). Academic capitalism and the new economy: Markets, state, and higher education. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press]. One such type of activity, entrepreneurship, reflects a fee-for-service versus service-for-free model that has come with the market-like and market behaviors of increasingly academic capitalist universities. |
