Owning Intellectual Leadership

Facing Down Academia’s Intellectual Neglect

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  • Richard Watermeyer
  • Mary P. Sheridan

Abstract

Geopolitical convulsions have exposed the scale of atrophy and impotency of academia’s intellectual contribution. While a contraction of intellectual leadership has been instinctively and perhaps idly blamed on higher education’s neoliberalization, academics’ apology neglects to address how their intellectual languor may also be operationalized into and obscured by a carousel of practices that academics have normalized, but should challenge.

Author Biographies

Richard Watermeyer

Richard Watermeyer is professor of higher education and co-director of the Centre for Higher Education Transformations (CHET) at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. E-mail: richard.watermeyer@bristol.ac.uk. 

Mary P. Sheridan

Mary P. Sheridan is professor of English and director of the Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society at the University of Louisville, United States. E-mail: maryp.sheridan@louisville.edu.

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2025-12-16

How to Cite

Watermeyer , R., & Sheridan, M. (2025). Owning Intellectual Leadership: Facing Down Academia’s Intellectual Neglect. International Higher Education, (125). Retrieved from https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ihe/article/view/21009

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