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University, Inc. : the corporate corruption of American higher education / Jennifer Washburn.
Van Pelt Library LC1085.2 .W37 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Washburn, Jennifer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business and education--United States.
- Business and education.
- United States.
- Universities and colleges--United States--Administration.
- Universities and colleges.
- Administration.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 326 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2005]
- Summary:
- "University, Inc." explains how the emerging alliance between the worlds of academia and business puts America's universities at risk, and tells how this union will affect us all.
- Contents:
- A new kind of uprising at Berkeley
- The lessons of history
- The birth of the market-model U
- The republic of science in turmoil
- Are conflicts of interest hazardous to our health?
- The university as business
- Dreaming of Silicon Valley
- Paying more for less : the commercial squeeze on teaching & the humanities
- The path forward : preserving the public domain.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-306) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0465090516
- OCLC:
- 57168350
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