Higher education : open for business / Christian Gilde, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gilde, Christian, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Finance.

Education, Higher.

Commercialism in schools.

Physical Description:

xi, 184 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2007]

Summary:

Higher Education: Open for Business presents a well-argued critique of the emergence of commercial values in a system reserved for learning and scholastic inquiry. Through closer examination of academic areas such as the campus environment, the classroom, academic research, and college sports, the reader is made aware that we have to consider carefully whether we want to turn a "college nation" into a "college corporation."

Contents:

The market of higher education / Elizabeth G. Miller

The overcommercialization of higher education / Christian Gilde

The impact of commercialism on the classroom / Catherine O'Neill

Commercialization goes hi-tech : the online classroom / Catherine O'Neill

Education from a distance / Fredrick Chilson and David Rutledge

College sports / Michael Malec

The spending nation : liberal education and the privileged place of consumption / Juliet B. Schor

Profits, politics, and social justice in the contemporary American university / Eve Spangler

Safeguarding uncertain futures / Christian Gilde and Eve Spangler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739118474

0739118471

9780739118481

073911848X

OCLC:

85018389