Higher education and the institution of the university exist in time, their essential nature now continually subject to change: change in students, in knowledge, in structure and in their own communities and those they service. These changes are accompanied by a quickening of time, leading to a heightened intensity of academic life. Yet the nature of time in all the contemporary work on the university has been largely overlooked. This is an important omission and Universities in the Flux of Time has gathered leading academics whose contributions to the volume raise a debate as to the influence and use of time in the university. They do this in an exploration of how these changes are perceived in higher education and how these affect its temporality from local, national and global perspectives. By dealing with the time within the university, the book opens new spaces for the development of the university and civic society.

Contributors Introduction Part 1 Past, Present and Future The University in the Epoch of Digital Reason: Fast Knowledge in the Circuits of Cybernetic Capitalism Michael A Peters 1. University Fashions: On Ideas whose Time has Come Barbara Czarniawska 2. If Time Doesn't Exist, Why are We Learning about the Past? Paul Gibbs 3. Organizational Devolution: The Old, New and Future American Research Universities in the Age of Privatization John Aubrey Douglass Part 2 Knowledge and Time 4. Innovation as Conformity: Academic Research in the Accelerated University Robert Hassan 5. Conquered by project time? Conflicting temporalities in university research Oili-Helena Ylijoki 6.. Different Times: Temporality, Curriculum and Powerful Knowledge Sue Clegg 7. The Time of Reason and the Ecological University Ronald Barnett Part 3 Living with Time Discovery and Delivery: Time Schemas and the Bureaucratic University Peter Murphy 8. Competing narratives of time in the managerial university: the contradiction of fast time and slow time Carolina Guzman and Roberto Di Napoli 9. Higher Education and an Ethic of Time Marianna Papastephanou 10. Academic Time and the Time of Academics Angela Brew Coda Bibliography Index