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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
C. Books
Author SCHRECKER, Ellen
Title The lost soul of higher education : corporatization, the aussault on academic freedom and the end of the American university / Ellen Schrecker
Publisher New York [u.a.] : The New Press, 2010
Collation X, 290 S.
Publication year 2010
ISBN 978-1-59558-400-7
Inventory number 79287
Keywords Ausland : USA : einzelne Hochschulen ; Ausland : USA : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Ausland : USA : allgemein ; Hochschule und Staat : allgemein ; Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre
Abstract 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. The Lost Soul of Higher Education tells the interwoven stories of successive, well-funded ideological assaults on academic freedom by outside pressure groups aimed at undermining the legitimacy of scholarly study, viewed alongside decades of eroding higher education budgets -- a trend that has sharply accelerated during the recent economic downturn. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)
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