Since the Worldwide Financial Crisis of 2008, higher education institutions around the world have been forced to change their financial practices to focus on the bottom line. One such approach is academic capitalism, the heart of which is the entrepreneurial university which views faculty members as producers of capital (not educators), students as consumers (not learners), and business/industry, accreditors, and NGOs as valued business partners. This article defines academic capitalism, reviews the research literature, presents perspectives of academic capitalism in the Americas and discusses the implications of academic capitalism for Latin America. The article ends using anthropophagi to assess what is useful about academic capitalism for Brazil.

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This chapter summarizes how a research project became a just-in-time intervention strategy to enable undergraduate researchers to address what it means to fall short—either of their own goals or the goals they perceived that others held for them—and to set the stage for appropriate coping mechanisms they could exercise to address the disconnect. The project extends research about how undergraduate STEM majors conceive of failure to a broader array of disciplines, including the arts and humanities.