9780226815299-0226815293-Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University

Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University

ISBN-13: 9780226815299
ISBN-10: 0226815293
Edition: 1
Author: Gaye Tuchman
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780226815299
ISBN-10: 0226815293
Edition: 1
Author: Gaye Tuchman
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover 272 pages

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Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University (ISBN-13: 9780226815299 and ISBN-10: 0226815293), written by authors Gaye Tuchman, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2009. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Education & Reference (Sociology, Higher & Continuing Education, Funding, Schools & Teaching) books. You can easily purchase or rent Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Education & Reference books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.38.

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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 leads to policies of surveillance and control dubiously cloaked in the guise of scientific administration. In this eye-opening exposé of the modern university, Tuchman paints a candid portrait of the corporatization of higher education and its impact on students and faculty.

Like the best campus novelists, Tuchman entertains with her acidly witty observations of backstage power dynamics and faculty politics, but ultimately Wannabe U is a hard-hitting account of how higher education’s misguided pursuit of success fails us all.

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