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Author Schrecker, Ellen.

Title The lost soul of higher education : corporatization, the assault on academic freedom, and the end of the American university / Ellen Schrecker.

Imprint New York : New Press, 2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  378.1213 Sch71l 2010    ---  Available
Description x, 290 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-279) and index.
Contents "Official duties" : Juan Hong and the crisis of the university -- "So fragile and so indispensable" : what is academic freedom and why should we care about it? -- Academic freedom under attack : subversives, squeaky wheels, and "special obligations" -- "Part of the struggle" : faculties confront the 1960s -- "A long-range and difficult project" : the backlash against the 1960s -- "Patterns of misconduct" : Ward Churchill and academic freedom after 9/11 -- "Tough choices" : the changing structure of higher education -- "Under our noses: : restructuring the academic profession -- "Everything is on the table" : the academy's response to the Great Recession.
Summary Schrecker, the leading historian of the McCarthy-era witch hunts, examines both the key fronts in the present battles over higher ed, and their historical parallels in previous eras--offering a deeply-researched chronicle of the challenges to academic freedom, set against the rapidly changing structure of the academy itself.
Subject Academic freedom -- United States.
Universities and colleges -- United States.
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Business and education -- United States.
ISBN 9781595584007 (hc. : alk. paper)
1595584005 (hc. : alk. paper)

 
    
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