Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money

Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money
ISBN-10
081392331X
ISBN-13
9780813923314
Category
Commercialism in schools
Pages
277
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Authors
James Engell, Anthony Dangerfield

Description

The new status of money -- Prestige, money, and the ends of higher education -- Learning for dollars -- Humanities and the market-model university -- The destruction of reading -- Means and ends, signs and symbols -- Packaging ethics -- Leading the self into the world -- Science, art, and democracy : a partnership -- The higher utility

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