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The Responsible Professor: EAPs and the Neoliberal University

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The Responsible Professor: EAPs and the Neoliberal University
Abstract
Universities commonly engage Employee Assistance Programs to help workers with their problems. In this institutional case study of neoliberalism in action, I analyze the EAP newsletters from one Canadian institution I call “Corporate U” for their impact on full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty. I show how their messaging counterproductively amplifies pressures in today’s university to be resilient and perform and be accountable. I take the EAP to be an agent of the university, and as such, their newsletters demonstrate the rise of neoliberal managerialism in academic life. Of particular concern is their individualising tendency to construct “the responsible professor” as an ideal to which all academic workers must now aspire.
Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology
Volume
46
Issue
1
Pages
1-36
Date
2021
Language
en
ISSN
1710-1123
Short Title
The Responsible Professor
Accessed
10/26/21, 4:47 PM
Library Catalog
journals.library.ualberta.ca
Rights
Copyright (c) 2021 Shelley Zipora Reuter
Extra
Number: 1
Citation
Reuter, S. Z. (2021). The Responsible Professor: EAPs and the Neoliberal University. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 46(1), 1–36. https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/cjs/index.php/CJS/article/view/29702