The ideal of the university used to be of a moral community, collectively engaged in the collaborative pursuit of truth. To be sure, doubtless it often fell far below that standard. But the very idea of the university as a moral space has become attenuated, and in its place – as with society as a whole – come the values of the market (the university as a production-line of career-enabling qualifications) and the state (the university as the arena of a struggle for power).
