Higher Education and Disaster Capitalism in the Age of COVID-19

Chapter 1: Introduction: Disaster Capitalism Comes to Higher Education.- Part I: Covid Trojan Horses.- Chapter 2: Laundering Coercion: Restart Planning, “Pandemic Task Forces” and the Dismantling of Shared Governance.- Chapter 3: Flexing for the State: The Push for Hyflex Modalities in State Legislatures.- Chapter 4: Staff Furloughs for Some, Chiefs of Staff for Others (Expand Administration and Shrink the Rest).- Chapter 5: Bringing the F.U.D. to Union Bust.- Part II: Covid Sleights of Hand.- Chapter 6: For the Love of Remote Learning? Now We Love it, Now We Don’t.- Chapter 7: Aspiring Diploma Mills Don’t Stop for Pandemics.- Chapter 8: Don’t Look Now: Tuition Increases and Student Debt.- Part III: Sacrificial Lambs.- Chapter 9: (Further) Stealing from Poor Students: CARES Act Profiteering.- Chapter 10: Student Life and Death: When COVID Responses are Turned Over to Athletics and Student Affairs.- Chapter 11: COVID Testing on Campus: Not Making the Science Grades.- Part V: Anti-Corporatization Resistance.- Chapter 12: Students Demand Justice.- Chapter 13: COVID, Campus Essential Workers, and the Movement for Racial Justice.- Chapter 14: Faculty Fight for the Soul of Higher Education.- Chapter 15: Recommendations and Call to Action.