Lowering Higher Education : : The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education /

Lowering Higher Education : : The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education / / James Cote, Anton L. Allahar.

What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Cote, James,
Allahar, Anton L.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©2011
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. A History of a Mission Adrift: The Idea of the University Subverted
  • 2. Stakeholder Relations: The Educational Forum
  • Introduction
  • 3. Standards: Schools without Scholarship?
  • 4. Universities: Crisis, What Crisis?
  • 5. Students: Is Disengagement Inevitable?
  • 6. Technologies: Will They Save the Day?
  • 7. Recommendations and Conclusions: Our Stewardship of the System
  • Notes
  • Index

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