Ebook: Lowering Higher Education: the Rise of Corporate Universities and the fall of Liberal Education

While outlining what makes the status quo dysfunctional, Lowering Higher Education also offers recommendations that have the potential to reinvigorate liberal education.;Cover; Contents; Introduction; The Plan of This Book; PART ONE: THE RISE OF PSEUDO-VOCATIONALISM; 1. A History of a Mission Adrift: The Idea of the University Subverted; The University in Historical Perspective: The First Millennium; The Drift Associated with Massification; The Drift toward Vocationalism; The Drift toward Corporatization; The Drift Associated with Social Engineering; The Spoils of the Culture Wars; Re-engaging the University; Conclusion: Into the Second Millennium of the University; 2. Stakeholder Relations: The Educational Forum; Conflict and Complicity: Case Studies.