Lowering Higher Education: The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education

by Anton L. Allahar, James E. Côté, James Cote

What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. C t and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. C t and Allahar connect the corporatization of universities to a range of contentious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442611219
• ISBN13: 9781442611214
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"