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you know what anymore  \nRebecca Dolhinow  \nCalifornia State University, Fullerton  \nStudent activists, like all activists, need space to organise, take part in actions, and educate their peers. On many campuses, these spaces can be a refuge for progressive students who may not find support for their activism in other spaces on campus. This article examines the development, function, and demise of one such space. In particular, this course of events is embedded in the concurrent processes of corporatisation and neoliberal enclosure taking place on universities across the United States. Student and faculty stories of increased supervision and ‘Big Brother’ inspired computer programs for tracking student “involvement” demonstrate unprecedented administrative reach into activism, its planning, and its implementation. The article is based on a decade long ethnographic study on a large public university campus in the US and smaller projects at similar institutions in California. The research is situated in the more general trends in the US over the same period through interviews with faculty at other institutions.  \nKeywords: activism, commons, corporatisation, neoliberalism, students  \nIn the clear, critical light of day, illusory administrators whisper of our need for institutions, and all institutions are political, and all politics is correctional, so it seems we need correctional institutions in the common, settling it, correcting it. (Moten & Harney, 2011, p. 987)  \nWhen the budgets, curriculums, directives, and goals of universities across the world change so do the experiences of students. This is especially true for students who want to use their universities as sites for social change through activism. I saw multiple examples of this in my ethnographic research and my personal experiences working alongside student activists. My research points to Neoliberalism, as an agent of enclosure in public universities when they use administrative growth (or bloat) and restructuring to control and correct student activism through spatial appropriation on campus (Ginsberg, 2011). What the corporate university cannot control through enclosure it exerts control over through cooptation, sanitisation, and bureaucratisation  \n14 Activism on the Corporate Campus Rebecca Dolhinow  \n(Gould, 2003; Giroux 2014). Together, these processes of enclosure and depoliticisation move the university closer to the image and function of a private corporation. In this paper, I will use theories of the common and enclosure to examine tactics used by the neoliberal university to control student activism through the control of campus spaces. While this paper focuses on student activism in higher education in the United States, the processes by which university administrations react to student activism are converging globally as neoliberalism takes over higher education.  \nThe recent appointment of Betsy DeVos, a conservative philanthropist with a strong and demonstrated desire toredesign public education in the US on a privatised model, as Secretary of Education in the US signals an unmistakable move atthe highest levels of government toward corporate models of education.While neoliberal corporatisation has been a bipartisan process, many of the anti-corporate Obama era programs and benefits created for higher  \nvol. 59, no. 2, 2017  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \neducation have been, or plan to be, cut or modified by DeVos and the Trump administration (Douglas-Gabriel 2017a; 2017b; Harris 2017a) . The programs targeted are primarily those that create consumer protections for students who continue their education and need to postpone payment on existing loans while in school and for students in for-profit universities where student debt can be extreme (Carey, 2017).The very fact that students require ‘consumer p","cbCaigsi6HSgk7X9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigsi6HSgk7X9","pdf",113379,"English","# Activism on Campus as a Political and Spatial Issue\n## Neoliberal enclosure, corporatisation, and tracking\n## University responses and depoliticisation\n## Education privatization signals and student protections","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the article investigate about student activism spaces?\",\"answer\":\"It examines how one campus space for progressive activism developed, functioned, and then disappeared, and what processes drove that change.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article connect neoliberalism to control of activism?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that neoliberalism enacts enclosure through administrative growth and restructuring, controlling and correcting student activism through spatial appropriation.\"},{\"question\":\"What administrative measures does the article describe regarding student oversight?\",\"answer\":\"It describes increased supervision and computer programs inspired by “Big Brother” that track student “involvement,” extending administrative reach into planning and implementation.\"}]","Activism on the Corporate Campus - 59 - no. 2 - 2017 | PDF",1792079675,23]