Author: Wesley Shumar
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780750704113
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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This text analyses higher education in the US and other western countries since the 1970s whereby market place logic has influenced the education system. It describes the transformation of US universities as they attempt to accommodate the changes on their own and their students' academic lives.
Author: Richard E. Schneider
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475946988
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Nasson College was a small, liberal arts college located in Springvale, Maine. Unfortunately, declining enrollment and questionable management decisions led to its bankruptcy and closing. But the path to closure had been set in motion many years before, long before the college filed for bankruptcy in November 1982. As it turned out, the end of Nasson College was not the end of Nasson's story. Author Richard E. Schneider tells the tale of how the community and alumni tried to save Nasson, which was in its time a beloved and respected school. College for Sale discusses how, as soon as the school closed, its corporate charter, the campus, the student records, and the outstanding multimillion-dollar trust fund that would eventually come due were in turmoil. It shares the details of the lawsuits, three bankruptcy auctions, loan defaults, federal investigations, congressional interventions, the school's reopening, and its subsequent closing. College for Sale shows how the Nasson alumni held together and, bit by bit, restored the Nasson Alumni Association to an active, vibrant organization, just as the old campus was revitalized with millions of dollars in new capital investments.
Author: Wesley Shumar
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780750704106
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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This text analyses higher education in the US and other western countries since the 1970s whereby market place logic has influenced the education system. It describes the transformation of US universities as they attempt to accommodate the changes on their own and their students' academic lives.
Author: Lawrence Busch
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026203607X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this. A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and argue that the only knowledge worth pursuing is that with more or less immediate market value. Every other kind of learning is downgraded, its budget cut. In Knowledge for Sale, Lawrence Busch challenges this market-driven approach. The rationale for the current thinking, Busch explains, comes from neoliberal economics, which calls for reorganizing society around the needs of the market. The market-influenced changes to higher education include shifting the cost of education from the state to the individual, turning education from a public good to a private good subject to consumer demand; redefining higher education as a search for the highest-paying job; and turning scholarly research into a competition based on metrics including number of citations and value of grants. Students, administrators, and scholars have begun to think of themselves as economic actors rather than seekers of knowledge. Arguing for active resistance to this takeover, Busch urges us to burst the neoliberal bubble, to imagine a future not dictated by the market, a future in which there is a more educated citizenry and in which the old dichotomies—market and state, nature and culture, and equality and liberty—break down. In this future, universities value learning and not training, scholarship grapples with society's most pressing problems rather than quick fixes for corporate interests, and democracy is enriched by its educated and engaged citizens.
Author: Daniel S. Greenberg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226306267
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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In recent years the news media have been awash in stories about increasingly close ties between college campuses and multimillion-dollar corporations. Our nation’s universities, the story goes, reap enormous windfalls patenting products of scientific research that have been primarily funded by taxpayers. Meanwhile, hoping for new streams of revenue from their innovations, the same universities are allowing their research—and their very principles—to become compromised by quests for profit. But is that really the case? Is money really hopelessly corrupting science? With Science for Sale, acclaimed journalist Daniel S. Greenberg reveals that campus capitalism is more complicated—and less profitable—than media reports would suggest. While universities seek out corporate funding, news stories rarely note that those industry dollars are dwarfed by government support and other funds. Also, while many universities have set up technology transfer offices to pursue profits through patents, many of those offices have been financial busts. Meanwhile, science is showing signs of providing its own solutions, as highly publicized misdeeds in pursuit of profits have provoked promising countermeasures within the field. But just because the threat is overhyped, Greenberg argues, doesn’t mean that there’s no danger. From research that has shifted overseas so corporations can avoid regulations to conflicts of interest in scientific publishing, the temptations of money will always be a threat, and they can only be countered through the vigilance of scientists, the press, and the public. Based on extensive, candid interviews with scientists and administrators, Science for Sale will be indispensable to anyone who cares about the future of scientific research.
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Health education
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Author: Oregon. Board of Commissioners for the Sale of School Lands and the Management of the Common School Fund
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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Category : Business education
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Author: William Nelson
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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