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Title: Failed Grade: The Corporatization and Decline of Higher Education
Author: Albert H. Soloway
ISBN: 1589822366
Publisher & Size: American Book Publishing, 304 pages, 5x8 inches
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"Professor Soloway casts a critical eye on the state of higher education in America . His trenchant analysis of the trends in higher education, especially in the large public multiversities, forces the conclusion that the age of collegiality in university governance, and of a focus on teaching and scholarship, will soon be replaced by a corporate model of governance with a focus on the 'bottom line' Professor Soloway documents this trend and examines its underlying dynamics."

—Simon Dinitz, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University

This book is MUST reading for all academic administrators and faculty members.

It is a lucid description and evaluation, albeit based on personal observations, of the changing academic environment in this country—from collegial governance based on principle of academic freedom to corporate model….

—Dev S. Pathak, Dean, Robert Stempel, Florida International University

"…pinpoints the cause of the crisis in American universities: the misapplication of the 'business' model to the humanistic enterprise of higher education. He does not merely decry the erosion of academic ideals; but recommends straightforward,
sensible correctives, based on decades of experience as a professor and a dean.

This book should be required reading for all university administrators and faculty."

—Eve Levin, Associate Professor, University of Kansas

The "corporatization" of colleges and universities has steered the attention
of institutions to the "bottom line" rather than education of students.

With the administration's priorities trained on the generation of money (through grants and contracts, patents, eminent publications or works of art, awards, patient care, student tuition or fundraising) what happens to the education of teachers, doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers and our future leaders?

What can be done to return an institution to its primary mission— that is, educating the next generation and in the process, creating new knowledge?

Colleges and universities are beginning to lose their way and a wakeup call is clearly necessary. FAILED GRADE: The Corporatization and Decline of Higher Education in America, is that wakeup call.

                                              

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