The autocratic academy : reenvisioning rule within America's universities /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kaufman-Osborn, Timothy V. (Timothy Vance), 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Universities and colleges > United States > Administration.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
Education, Higher > United States > History.
Education and state > United States > History.
Enseignement supérieur > Finalités > États-Unis.
Éducation > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire.
EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General.
EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher.
EDUCATION / Higher
Universities and colleges > Administration
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
Education, Higher
Education and state
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 . . ."

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