Failed Grade: The Corporatization And Decline of Higher Education

by Albert H. Soloway, Albert H. Solowy

The "corporatization" of colleges and universities has steered the attention of institutions to the "bottom line" rather than education of students. With the administration's priorities trained on the generation of money (through grants and contracts, patents, eminent publications or works of art, awards, patient care, student tuition or fundraising) what happens to the education of teachers, doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers and our future leaders? What can be done to return an institution to its primary mission— that is, educating the next generation and in the process, creating new knowledge? Colleges and universities are beginning to lose their way and a wakeup call is clearly necessary. FAILED The Corporatization and Decline of Higher Education in America, is that wakeup call.

304 pages, Paperback

First published July 30, 2006