Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cote, James E
• Allahar, Anton L

Titel

Lowering Higher Education: The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education

Ist Teil von

• University of Toronto Press Inc., Jan 2011, 256 pp, 2011

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? This study explores the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. The authors connect the corporatization of universities to a range of contentious issues within higher education, from lowered standards and inflated grades to the overall decline of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences instruction. It points to a fundamental disconnect between policymakers, who may rarely set foot in contemporary classrooms, and the teachers who must implement their educational policies -- which the authors argue are poorly informed -- on a daily basis. The book aims to expose stakeholder misconceptions surrounding the current culture of academic disengagement and supposed power of new technologies to motivate students.