The higher learning in America :: a memorandum on the conduct of universities by business men /

"Veblen's insights into the American university system at the outset of the twentieth century are as provocative today as they were when first published. Insisting that institutions of higher learning should be dedicated solely to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, he urged American u...

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1. Verfasser: Veblen, Thorstein, 1857-1929 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Teichgraeber, Richard F. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Ausgabe:Annotated edition.
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Zusammenfassung:"Veblen's insights into the American university system at the outset of the twentieth century are as provocative today as they were when first published. Insisting that institutions of higher learning should be dedicated solely to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, he urged American universities to abandon commitments to extraneous pursuits such as athletics, community service, and vocational education. He also believed that the corporate model of governance--with university boards of trustees dominated by well-to-do businessmen and university presidents who functioned essentially as businessmen in academic dress--mandated unsavory techniques of salesmanship and self-promotion that threatened to reduce institutions of higher learning to the status of competitive business enterprises."--Publisher's Web site
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 240 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781421416793
1421416794

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