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It would be useful for someone to write a good, long piece tying together the growth of a managerial class and the decline in the power of the faculty; the chea
by jfb 13y ago
It would be useful for someone to write a good, long piece tying together the growth of a managerial class and the decline in the power of the faculty; the cheap money that is pumping them full of ridiculous capital improvement campaigns; the reduction of the discourse around the proper way to order a University, college, or community college eduction to one that mutates the "market of ideas" to "the market" and worships at the weird altar of efficiency.
- Perceval 13y agoSomeone already did: http://www.amazon.com/The-Fall-Faculty-Benjamin-Ginsberg/dp/0199975434 http://www.amazon.com/The-Fall-Faculty-Benjamin-Ginsberg/dp/...
- jfb 13y agoNoted. I'm looking forward to it. My dad (a retired professor of Anthropology) has no more reliable trigger for a sputtering rage than talking about University administration.