Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn

The Autocratic Academy

Reenvisioning Rule within America's Universities

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Produktbeschreibung

Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn outlines the history of American higher educationà â â s formal organization as an incorporated autocracy that is tied to capitalism, arguing that the academy must reconstitute itself in accordance with the principles of democratic republicanism in which members choose who govern and can hold them accountable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781478017127
• ISBN-10: 1478017120
• Artikelnr.: 64266515

Autorenporträt

Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn is Baker Ferguson Professor of Politics and Leadership Emeritus at Whitman College and author of From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State and Creatures of Prometheus: Gender and the Politics of Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
A Prologue in the Form of a Puzzle  1
I. Nibbling at the Crust of Convention
1. Imperious Regents and Disposable Custodians  11
2. The Neoliberal Corporation Debunked  30
3. Corporate Types   47
II. Contesting the Constitution of College in Early America
4. William & Mary Dispossessed  63
5. “The College of Tyrannus”  82
6. The Marshall Plan  105
III. A Bet Gone Bad
7. Psychasthenia Universitatis (or The Malady of the Academy)  135
8. “Shared Governance” as Placebo  163
IV. When Autocrats Meet Their Makers
9. Outsourcing Self-Governance   197
10. “Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall . . .”  231
Epilogue: Reenvisioning the Corporate Academy  255
Notes  273
Bibliography  307
Index  327