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Transforming higher education : economy, democracy, and the university / edited by Stephen J. Rosow and Thomas Kriger.

Contributor(s): Rosow, Stephen J | Kriger, Thomas.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 236 p.).ISBN: 9780739131725.Subject(s): Education, Higher -- United States | Education, Higher -- United States -- Administration | Educational change -- United States
Contents:
Corporate miseducation and the liberal arts response / R. Jeffrey Lustig -- Veblen's The higher learning in America and the ambiguities of academic independence / Sidney Plotkin -- What is information? The neoliberal turn, digitalization, and Interdisciplinarity / Timothy W. Luke -- The concept of corporatization: a useful tool or feel-good slogan? / William Scheuerman and Thomas Kriger -- The economics of globalization and corporatization of higher education / Frederick Floss -- Institutional and ideological determinants of economics education in U.S. colleges and universities / Hamid Azari-Rad --Corporatization and research information / Catherine Dwyer and Sally Knapp -- Global knowledge, the university, and democratic politics / Stephen J. Rosow -- Controversy, contest, and competition: the institutionalization of the "discipline of scale" and higher learning in the twenty-first century / David Vampola -- Open source and open content as a counter to globalization and corporatism for public institutions of higher learning / David Solomonoff.
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General Circulation Books General Circulation Books LA227.3 D42 1998 (Browse shelf) Available CW
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Corporate miseducation and the liberal arts response / R. Jeffrey Lustig -- Veblen's The higher learning in America and the ambiguities of academic independence / Sidney Plotkin -- What is information? The neoliberal turn, digitalization, and Interdisciplinarity / Timothy W. Luke -- The concept of corporatization: a useful tool or feel-good slogan? / William Scheuerman and Thomas Kriger -- The economics of globalization and corporatization of higher education / Frederick Floss -- Institutional and ideological determinants of economics education in U.S. colleges and universities / Hamid Azari-Rad --Corporatization and research information / Catherine Dwyer and Sally Knapp -- Global knowledge, the university, and democratic politics / Stephen J. Rosow -- Controversy, contest, and competition: the institutionalization of the "discipline of scale" and higher learning in the twenty-first century / David Vampola -- Open source and open content as a counter to globalization and corporatism for public institutions of higher learning / David Solomonoff.

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