This essay compares the responses to the pandemic at two universities on opposite sides of the world: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the United States. It argues that the pandemic has revealed the extent to which campuses have reorganized their institutional priorities according to the values of an “entrepreneurial university.” At both NTU and UIUC, campus communities have become testbeds for “innovation” in biomedical infrastructures, epidemiological modeling, and a panoply of digital initiatives related to data collection, tracking, and surveillance. Although such efforts are not without local benefits, they also put at risk the same people that they are purportedly meant to protect–many of whom were already experiencing different forms of precarity before the pandemic–in service of the global market economy. But what, we ask, of the moral economy?