Leasing the Ivory Tower

Leasing the Ivory Tower
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Publisher : South End Press
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 0896085031
ISBN-13 : 9780896085039
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Book Synopsis Leasing the Ivory Tower by : Lawrence C. Soley

Download or read book Leasing the Ivory Tower written by Lawrence C. Soley and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes the growing corporate threats to the future of intellectual inquiry and civil society itself. Corporate investments, Soley argures, have dramatically changed the mission of higher education; they have led universities to attend to the interests of their well-heeled patrons, rather than those of students.


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