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Pattern Recognition: A Research Collective (PRRC) is a research and consultancy company focused on the social effects of financialization, marketization, and commodification, forces that prioritize monetary notions of “value” (and value extraction) above all others.  In particular, we are interested in analyzing and documenting their effects on higher education for the benefit of faculty, staff, administrators, students, alumni, and parents so that together, we may chart a better path forward.

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Recognitions is our publication platform. Here, we:

1. Publicize and analyze particular points of conflict in public and private higher education and how they relate to financialization

2. Explain & demystify finance, since we have found that many people really don’t understand what finance is, what financial instruments/vehicles are and how widespread they’ve become, and how they function (particularly “complex” and/or secretive ones like derivatives, private equity, and hedge funds), how “value” is determined, and so on.

3. Contextualize financialized higher education as symptomatic of the varieties of capitalism/neoliberalism and managerialism dominant in the Anglosphere since the middle 1970s. 

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Write us, and let us know what is happening where you are! Every institution is unique, but we believe that many, if not most, of the problems faced by higher education today are systemic. The more widely that aspects of financialization are understood, the better the chances of limiting or reversing their effects: there is strength in numbers.