Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University

by Gaye Tuchman

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226815293

ISBN13:9780226815299

Release Date:October 2009

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Administration College & University Education Education & Reference Education Theory Educational Philosophy Funding Philosophy & Social Aspects Reference Schools & Teaching Social Science Social Sciences Sociology

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