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Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University

Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University

Paperback

General EducationGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0226815307
ISBN13: 9780226815305
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Apr 1 2011
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Based on years of observation at a large state university, Wannabe U tracks the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional educational values for loyalty to the market. Aping their boardroom idols, the new corporate administrators at such universities wander from job to job and reductively view the students there as future workers in need of training. Obsessed with measurable successes, they stress auditing and accountability, which leads to policies of surveillance and control dubiously cloaked in the guise of scientific administration. In this eye-opening exposé of the modern university, Tuchman paints a candid portrait of the corporatization of higher education and its impact on students and faculty.

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