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What is wrong with academia today? : essays on the politicization of American education / edited by Rex S. Wirth, Thomas R. Whiddon, Tony J. Manson ; with a foreword by Harbison Pool.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Education, Higher--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Academic freedom--United States.
- Academic freedom.
- Physical Description:
- xxxix, 300 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Bureaucracy as democracy : instruction as higher education / Rex Wirth
- Technology and higher education : a view from neo-Ludditeville / Joseph A. Scimecca
- Corporateering, education, and the academy / Gregg Brownell
- Student grades : a portal for corporatizing the academy / Thomas R. Whiddon, Clarence E. Burns, and Mandy L. Whiddon
- Pluralism and democracy : fading value systems in American higher education / Clarence E. Burns
- The freedom insurgency : a study of the students' rights and academic freedom movements / Andrea Carter
- The myth of academic freedom / Ward Churchill
- American Indians : in pursuit of their academic dreams / Delores "Kandee" Cleary
- The purpose of diversity in higher education / Charles P. Ervin, Jr. and Elizabeth K. Davenport
- Adjuncts : the invisible faculty / Lila Marz Harper and Ruthi Roth Erdman
- The fallout from politicization of education / Tony J. Manson
- Tale of horror in acadumbia / Lem Londos Railsback
- The academy's final shift? / Nils Hovik.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780773449749
- 0773449744
- OCLC:
- 234234075
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