The document discusses how neoliberalism has affected higher education and equality of opportunity. It notes that neoliberalism allows private interests to control social life for profit. This has negatively impacted faculty, students, and society. Additionally, neoliberalism promotes the idea of "marketopia" where people are solely seen as consumers. The document concludes that in order to achieve equal opportunity in education, the notions of neoliberalism, marketopia and capitalism must be challenged as they have corporatized schools.

1. Education and Equality of Opportunity

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3. Neoliberalism Policies and processes whereby a relative handful of private interests are permitted to control as much as possible of social life in order to maximize their personal profit. Neoliberalism embraces the “market as the arbiter of social destiny” as its motto.

4. Group Activity How has Neoliberalism in higher education affected the following groups? Faculty Students Society

5. Marketopia is synonymous to consumerism where people are seen only as consumers. According to Terrance Ball, professor of political theory at Arizona State University, marketopia is characterized by a massive violation of equity and justice and marketopians who can’t afford health care, education, police protection, and other of life’s necessities are denied a fair share of social goods

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7. Jacques Derrida and Toni Morrison recognize that the present crisis represents a historical opportunity to refuse the commonsense assumption that democracy is synonymous with capitalism and critical citizenship is limited to being an unquestioning consumer.

8. Furthermore, Derrida states that “we must do and think the impossible. If only the possible happened, nothing more would happen. If I only did what I can do, I wouldn’t do anything.”

9. Conclusion It is clear that neoliberalism doesn’t foster equality of opportunity in education and in order to achieve equal opportunity we must challenge the notion of neoliberalism, marketopia and capitalism as it pertains to education. It is imperative that colleges, universities and students, join with community and social movements to form a platform that resists the corporatizing of schools.