Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University

by Gaye Tuchman

Book Overview

Based on years of observation at a large state university, Wannabe U tracks the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional educational values for loyalty to the market. Aping their boardroom idols, the new corporate administrators at such universities wander from job to job and reductively view the students there as future workers in need of training. Obsessed with measurable successes, they stress auditing and accountability, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226815307
• ISBN13: 9780226815305
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"