2017
DOI: 10.32316/hse/rhe.v29i2.4514
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Neo-liberalism and Institutionalism in the Short Life of TechBC

Abstract: The Technical University of British Columbia (1999–2002) has received scant attention in the scholarly literature since it was folded into Simon Fraser University and became SFU’s Surrey branch campus. This article uses neo-liberal and institutional theory to understand the university’s economic mandate and the motivations of the staff and faculty who worked there. TechBC’s legislation and oral history interviews reveal neo-liberal influence in its purpose as an economic driver of the province, academic progra… Show more

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