Abstract

Universities and the values that they embody are on a cusp. Over the past half century or more, they have been drawn into, if not corralled into, a value framework of economic and market rationality and state managerialism and have, in turn, been obliged at least to ventriloquise the values of those powerful forces, if not actually to take on those attendant values. Some see the university as occupying a values desert, being devoid of values. For them, the university has fallen in with an age of nihilism.