ABSTRACT
The implementation of programs and policies in Brazilian public universities in the last 15 years created new mechanisms to integrate them into the circuits of reproduction of capital, without changing their legal nature. In a context of technological acceleration and intensification of the capital crisis, new forms of capitalist appropriation of the knowledge produced by Brazilian public universities were created in all their activities. This article seeks to contribute to the characterization of new academic neoliberalism by analyzing the articulation between the access expansion policies for students and the fostering innovation policies in Brazilian public universities. New Academic neoliberalism is a concept that describes the exacerbation of historically recorded characteristics of capitalist commodification in higher education. In Brazil, neoliberal policies for higher education were transformed, acquiring new characteristics due to the changes in the recommendations of the international organisms. Thus, we characterize new academic neoliberalism as a set of policies and programs that create so-called inclusive policies; make training flexible by offering new courses; modify funding; establish entrepreneurship as a culture to be disseminated by the university; spread the managerialism; and precarious labor relations in public universities.
Keywords:
Academic Neoliberalism; Brazilian Higher education; Access Expansion Policies; Science, Technology and Innovation Policy