The lost soul of higher education
Subtitle: corporatization, the assault on academic freedom, and the end of the American university
By: Ellen Schrecker
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781595584007
Subjects: Business and education; Higher Education; Universities and colleges; Academic freedom
Description: Schrecker, the leading historian of the McCarthy-era witch hunts, examines both the key fronts in the present battles over higher ed, and their historical parallels in previous eras--offering a deeply-researched chronicle of the challenges to academic freedom, set against the rapidly changing structure of the academy itself.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Official duties" : Juan Hong and the crisis of the university; title: "So fragile and so indispensable" : what is academic freedom and why should we care about it?; title: Academic freedom under attack : subversives, squeaky wheels, and "special obligations"; title: "Part of the struggle" : faculties confront the 1960s; title: "A long-range and difficult project" : the backlash against the 1960s; title: "Patterns of misconduct" : Ward Churchill and academic freedom after 9/11; title: "Tough choices" : the changing structure of higher education; title: "Under our noses: : restructuring the academic profession; title: "Everything is on the table" : the academy's response to the Great Recession.