TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schrecker,Ellen
TI  - The lost soul of higher education: corporatization, the assault on academic freedom, and the end of the American university 
SN  - 9781595584007 (hc. : alk. paper)
AV  - LC72.2 .S36 2010
U1  - 378.1/2130973 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - New Press, Distributed by Perseus Distribution
KW  - Academic freedom
KW  - United States
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Business and education
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-279) and index; "Official duties" : Juan Hong and the crisis of the university -- "So fragile and so indispensable" : what is academic freedom and why should we care about it? -- Academic freedom under attack : subversives, squeaky wheels, and "special obligations" -- "Part of the struggle" : faculties confront the 1960s -- "A long-range and difficult project" : the backlash against the 1960s -- "Patterns of misconduct" : Ward Churchill and academic freedom after 9/11 -- "Tough choices" : the changing structure of higher education -- "Under our noses: : restructuring the academic profession -- "Everything is on the table" : the academy's response to the Great Recession
N2  - 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
ER  -