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Title What is wrong with academia today? : essays on the politicization of American education / edited by Rex S. Wirth, Thomas R. Whiddon, Tony J. Manson ; with a foreword by Harbison Pool
Published Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description xxxix, 300 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Bureaucracy as democracy : instruction as higher education / Rex Wirth -- Technology and higher education : a view from neo-Ludditeville / Joseph A. Scimecca -- Corporateering, education, and the academy / Gregg Brownell -- Student grades : a portal for corporatizing the academy / Thomas R. Whiddon, Clarence E. Burns, and Mandy L. Whiddon -- Pluralism and democracy : fading value systems in American higher education / Clarence E. Burns -- The freedom insurgency : a study of the students' rights and academic freedom movements / Andrea Carter -- The myth of academic freedom / Ward Churchill -- American Indians : in pursuit of their academic dreams / Delores "Kandee" Cleary -- The purpose of diversity in higher education / Charles P. Ervin, Jr. and Elizabeth K. Davenport -- Adjuncts : the invisible faculty / Lila Marz Harper and Ruthi Roth Erdman -- The fallout from politicization of education / Tony J. Manson -- Tale of horror in acadumbia / Lem Londos Railsback -- The academy's final shift? / Nils Hovik
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States.
Academic freedom -- United States.
Author Wirth, Rex Sylvester, 1944-
Whiddon, Thomas R.
Manson, Tony J.
LC no. 2008029559
ISBN 9780773449749
0773449744