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The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities

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 | #547846 in Books |  Fordham University Press |  2008-04-30 |  2008-04-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.90 x.60 x8.90l,.68 | File type: PDF | 172 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A powerful, depressing argument.|By bookaddict|This is my favorite book about the commercialization/commodification/corporatization of higher education. Frank Donoghue carefully refutes the idea that higher education is facing a new crisis. He details the historical conflict between education for its own sake and corporate interests, and he shows how all colleges and universit|From Booklist|How is it that the number of students attending American universities has surged in recent decades, but the number of professors—especially humanities professors—has dwindled? The perplex

“What makes the modern university different from any other corporation?” asked Columbia’s Andrew Delbanco recently in the New York Times. “There is more and more reason to think: less and less,” he answered.

In this provocative book, Frank Donoghue shows how this growing corporate culture of higher education threatens its most fundamental values by erasing one of its defining features: the tenured professor.

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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities   |  Frank Donoghue. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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