Abstract: This paper is an attempt to investigate the ambiguities of the cyberspaced higher education metanarrative and to use them as a background from which to illuminate alternative financial and strategic models for universities in Africa and Cameroon. Universities in Africa and Cameroonare now faced with the challenges of a new free market capitalist order marked by a significant squeeze in public subsidies and funding and an increasing need to rely on privatization of capital resources, entrepreneurship startups and incubations. The paper argues that this process of social change will be very challenging for universities in Africa and Cameroon for a number of reasons. The cyberspaced site of the higher education as an organization is full of ambiguities. More critically, the alternative models of financing and strategic management of the university organization is very susceptible to the obsolescence of traditional/modern models of diffusion and adoption, the political economy of financial management, the limitations of the realist paradigms of higher education organizational management, new realities of the cost-effective mode of public university institutions, designing of the new public management performance, agency of social actors and actor-network contingencies.
Keywords: Cyberspatialization of higher education, diffusion/ adoption, financial management, realist paradigms of higher education, cost-effective mode of public university institutions, new public management performance, agency of social actors, actor-network contingencies.
Title: Cyberspacing higher education and ambiguities in selected critical readings: advocacy for an alternative financial and strategic management regime
Author: John Tientem Mbi, Alfred Ndi
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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