What is wrong with academia today?
Subtitle: essays on the politicization of American education
By: edited by Rex S. Wirth, Thomas R. Whiddon, and Tony J. Manson; with a foreword by Harbison Pool.
Contributors: Wirth, Rex Sylvester, 1944-; Whiddon, Thomas R.; Manson, Tony J.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780773449749
Subjects: Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States; Academic freedom -- United States
Table of contents: title: Bureaucracy as democracy : instruction as higher education / Rex Wirth; title: Technology and higher education : a view from neo-ludditeville / Joseph A. Scimecca; title: Corporateering, education, and the academy / Gregg Brownell; title: Student grades : a portal for corporatizing the academy / Thomas R. Whiddon, Clarence E. Burns, and Mandy L. Whiddon; title: Pluralism and democracy : fading value systems in American higher education / Clarence E. Burns; title: The freedom insurgency : a study of the students' rights and academic freedom movements / Andrea Carter; title: The myth of academic freedom / Ward Churchill; title: American Indians : in pursuit of their academic dreams / Delores "Kandee" Cleary; title: The purpose of diversity in higher education / Charles P. Ervin, Jr. and Elizabeth K. Davenport; title: Adjuncts : the invisible faculty / Lila Marz Harper and Ruthi Roth Erdman; title: The fallout from politicization of education / Tony J. Manson; title: Tale of horror in acadumbia / Lem Londos Railsback; title: The academy's final shift? / Nils Hovik.