Title: How Harvard rules :
Authors: Trumpbour, John.
Date: 1989
Publisher: South End Press,
Physical description: xii, 450 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: L
Abstract: A collection of essays on Harvard arranged in six sections. Three major themes pervade the book: the myth of Harvard's independence, the myth of Harvard as a liberal-left institution, and Harvard's contribution to ethno-centrism and the "superiority" of the West.
Contents: Pt. 1. Introducing Harvard. Introducing Harvard: a social, philosophical and political profile -- How Harvard is ruled: administration and governance at the corporate university. Pt. 2. Harvard and the state. Harvard, the cold war and the national security state -- Living with the bomb: the world according to Bok -- Jackboot liberals. Pt. 3. Harvard, the corporations, and the community. The business-university revisited: industry and empire in crimson Cambridge -- Neighborhood bully: Harvard, the community and urban development -- A history of university labor struggles. Pt. 4. Harvard science and pseudo-science. Blinding them with science: scientific ideologies in the ruling of the modern world -- The science of racism -- Sexism and sociobiology: for our own good and the good of the species -- Ideology in practice: the mismeasure of man. Pt. 5. Education, ideology, and social control. "Cleaning house": hiring, tenure and dissent -- The tenure process and its invisible kingmaker -- Could Karl Marx teach economics in the United States? -- Uppity and out: A case study in the politics of faculty reappointment (and the limitations of grievance procedures) -- Minority and third world students -- Meritocracy and the manipulations of ethnic minorities: the Epps and Evans affair -- Sexual shakedown -- A note on the professional schools -- Laying down the law: the empire strikes back -- Making students safe for democracy: the core curriculum and intellectual management. Pt. 6. Strategies for transformation. The progressive student heritage -- "Waiting for Derek": the divestment struggle -- Democracy Harvard-style: the (S) election of overseers -- Conclusion: Transforming Harvard.
Subject headings (LCSH): Business and education--Massachusetts--Cambridge--Case studies.; Business and education--Massachusetts--Cambridge.; Harvard University--Employees--Political activity.; Harvard University--Faculty.; Harvard University--History--20th century.; Higher education and state--Massachusetts--Cambridge--Case studies.; Higher education and state--Massachusetts--Cambridge.