%0 Journal Article %A Lewis Stockwell %A Karen Smith %A Philip A. Woods %D 2022 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %J PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY IN HIGHER EDUCATION %@ 2578-5761 %N 3 %V 2 %T 4. That Which Is Worthy of Love: A Philosophical Framework for Reflection on Staff-Student Partnerships for the Future University %R 10.3726/PTIHE032020.0005 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1169695 %X In this article we develop a philosophical understanding of student-staff partnership through a novel interpretation and development of Aristotle’s friendship arguments. In contributing to an emerging critical field of study of student-staff partnership, we begin by explaining the current state of being a student in the neoliberal university. In light of the polylithic changes neo-liberalism impresses on student being and becoming, and how partnerships are proposed paradoxically as both a %K partnership, Aristotle, friendship, utility, pleasure, virtue