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The Autocratic Academy : Reenvisioning Rule within America's Universities /

"Critics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academy's "corporatization" as one of its defining maladies. However, argues Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn in The Autocratic Academy, American colleges and universities have always been organized as corporations in which...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kaufman-Osborn, Timothy V. (Timothy Vance), 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A prologue in the form of a puzzle
  • Imperious regents and disposable custodians
  • The neoliberal corporation debunked
  • Corporate types
  • William & Mary dispossessed
  • "The college of Tyrannus"
  • The Marshall Plan
  • Psychasthenia universitatis (or The malady of the academy)
  • "Shared governance" as placebo
  • Outsourcing self-governance
  • "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall . . ."