Wannabe u : inside the corporate university / Gaye Tuchman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuchman, Gaye.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--United States--Administration.

Universities and colleges.

Universities and colleges--United States--Accounting.

Universities and colleges--United States--Business management.

Universities and colleges--United States--Faculty.

Universities and colleges--United States--Evaluation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Like the best campus novelists, Tuchman entertains with her acidly witty observations of backstage power dynamics and faculty politics, but ultimately Wannabe U is a hard-hitting account of how higher education's misguided pursuit of success fails us all.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1: Wannabe University Is Transformed

2: Situating Wannabe U

3: Conforming, Branding, and Research

4: Outsiders and the New Managerialism

5: The Politics of Centralization

6: Teaching, Learning, and Rating

7: Carrots, Sticks, and Accountability

8: Plans and Priorities

9: Making Professors Accountable

10: The Logic of Compliance

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612426940

9781282426948

128242694X

9780226815282

0226815285

OCLC:

489206442