The Transformation of Academic Commons in Historical Perspective

我的项目旨在探索大学，特别是美国大学，如何逐渐失去其“公共”性质，并成为越来越多的“私有化”组织。如今，说我们已经见证了“知识经济”的到来几乎是陈词滥调。“后工业化国家的经济倾向于依赖新的科学知识，并变得更加以科学为基础。自然，人们强烈要求大学对这样一个高增值经济作出重要贡献。我进行这项研究的目的是重新审视学术界在社会中的地位，并论证我们在知识界重建“学术公地”的紧迫性。

My project seeks to explore the ways in which universities, particularly in the US, have gradually lost their "public" nature and have become more and more "privatized" organizations. Nowadays it is almost a cliche to say that we have witnessed the coming of the "knowledge economy." The economy in post-industry countries has tended to rely on new scientific knowledge and has become more science-based. Naturally the importance of universities' contribution to such a high-value-added economy has been strongly demanded. My goal in undertaking this study is to reexamine academia's place in the society and to argue that it is urgent that we reconstruct the "academic commons" in the intellectual world.