Neoliberalism, academic capitalism and higher education: Exploring the challenges of one university in rural Haiti

Max Stephenson and Laura Zanotti

International Journal of Educational Development, 2019, vol. 65, issue C, 115-122

Abstract: This analysis of Rural Haitian University (RHU, a pseudonym) highlights the complexities that have arisen as a social entrepreneur in an extremely poor rural region in a deeply impoverished developing nation has sought to employ higher education to encourage community development. We argue that RHU has languished as a result of its founder’s embrace of a grass roots-centered vision that nonetheless ironically tracked neoliberal assumptions and conditions concerning institutional sustainability. We contend that our case suggests that a strategy that assumes self-sustaining and autonomous higher education institutions is unlikely to succeed in very poor nations.

Keywords: World bank; Rural community development; Higher education; Academic capitalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.08.009

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