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

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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. 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. Conflicts in the ArenaComplicity in the Grandstands: The Scourge of Human Capital Theory Conclusion: Whither Free Enquiry? PART TWO: ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DRIFT TO PSEUDO-VOCATIONALISM 3. Standards: Schools without Scholarship? The Student Side of the Disengagement Compact The Teacher / Learning Environment Side of the Disengagement Compact The Two-Tiered System: The Spread of the BA-lite in the Credentialist Era Conclusion: Preserving Scholarship 4. Universities: Crisis, What Crisis? Defining the University's Crisis Shooting the Messenger. Conclusion: 'Captain, we are off course!' 'Nonsense, you are imagining things.'5. Students: Is Disengagement Inevitable? Get Used to It! It Is Unrealistic to Expect More Students Have Busy Lives It's Always Been Like This: Historical Considerations There Are No Disengagement Problems Students Are Smarter Now and Just Bored Professors Are Bad Teachers: It's Their Fault Variation in Disengagement: New Empirical Evidence Conclusion: Enough Excuses 6. Technologies: Will They Save the Day? Claims Regarding New Technologies The Evidence Conclusions: Mixed Support and Moral Entrepreneurs. PART THREE: THE WAY FORWARD INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM7. Recommendations and Conclusions: Our Stewardship of the System What to Do What Not to Do: Managing the Line between Mass and Elite Universities Conclusion Notes Index A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z.