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[http://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero](http://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero)  \nShrinking Budgets, Growing Demands: Neoliberalism and Academic Identity Tension at Regional Public Universities  \nDaryl Dugas  \nKelly H. Summers  \nLindsay N. Harris  \nAmy E. Stich  \nNorthern Illinois University  \nFaculty (N = 156) at regional public universities (RPUs) in the United States were surveyed for self-reports of their primary academic identity (teacher, researcher) along with alignment of that identity with perceived departmental expectations and how their time is spent. Well-being and job satisfaction were examined as outcome measures of identity and alignment. The results are examined in the context of international concerns about neoliberalism in higher education, particularly with respect to academic identity. Participants were employed by RPUs in Illinois, a state with severe budget challenges, to assess the combined impact of neoliberalism and financial pressures on academic identity at traditionally teaching-focused institutions. Results of MANCOVA andMANOVA analyses suggested that participants who identify as teachers had greater overall well-being and job satisfaction than those who identified as researchers. Greater satisfaction was associated with alignment between identity and how time is spent. Implications and challenges to faculty work and strains on academic identity at RPUs are discussed.  \nKeywords: academic identity, neoliberalism, higher education, regional public universities, United States  \nIn the United States, publicly funded higher education is rapidly reaching a crossroads. According to data collected by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP, 2016), since 2008, every state in the United States has decreased per pupil funding allotments to state colleges and universities, with a median decrease of 21% across states. Under these conditions, public university administrators are under increasing pressure to decrease costs, increase revenues, and run their institutions more efficiently.  \nThese economic shifts have occurred within the larger global context of neoliberalism (Scott, 2016; Yilmaz, Feiner,& McKenzie, 2017), a paradigm described by some as an attempt to maximize human well-being through free market forces (Harvey, 2007) but understood less generously by others as “predatory capitalism”(Giroux, 2014) . Within the field of higher education, neoliberalism has been reflected in the more prominent use of the language of business, greater emphasis on research and grant writing as revenue generators (Archer, 2008a; Saunders, 2014), and national initiatives reflecting these values such as the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in the United Kingdom (Archer, 2008a, 2008b; Henkel, 2005; Winter, 2009) . As Yilmaz and colleagues (2017) summarize,“We are witness to a global project designed to reduce/distil our universities down to private business units that define all academic functions in terms of contributions to economic value”(p. 2) . While it is beyond  \nthe scope of this article to argue that international neoliberal trends have been a primary cause of the growing economic crisis in public higher education within the United States, it is undeniable the neoliberal rhetoric of universities as economic enterprises dovetails nicely with budgetary necessities of the moment at the state level.  \nThese pressures are particularly keen at American regional public universities (RPUs), also known as comprehensive universities. These are institutions that are funded atthe state level but are generally less prestigious than the flagship universities in each state. RPUs traditionally have had few PhD programs, held moderately selective admissions requirements, put greater emphasis on teaching rather than research, and served larger proportions of economically marginalized populations, including first-gen","cbCaii4xvbYymdRw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaii4xvbYymdRw","pdf",813052,14,"English","# Study focus\n# Context: public higher education pressures\n## Neoliberalism in higher education\n## Regional public universities and budget constraints\n# Research design and measures\n## Academic identity and alignment\n## Outcomes: well-being and job satisfaction\n# Key findings\n## Teacher vs. researcher differences\n## Role of identity-time alignment\n# Implications","[{\"question\":\"What was the main focus of the study?\",\"answer\":\"The study investigated how faculty at U.S. regional public universities navigate competing identities as teachers and researchers under neoliberal and financial pressures.\"},{\"question\":\"Which outcome measures were examined?\",\"answer\":\"Well-being and job satisfaction were used as outcome measures linked to academic identity and alignment.\"},{\"question\":\"What did the analyses suggest about teacher versus researcher identity?\",\"answer\":\"Faculty who identified as teachers reported greater overall well-being and job satisfaction than those who identified as researchers.\"}]","Shrinking Budgets, Growing Demands - Neoliberalism and Academic Identity Tension at Regional Public Universities | PDF",1792070139,35]