The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University

The professor and historian delivers a major critique of how political and financial attacks on the academy are undermining our system of higher education.

Making a provocative foray into the public debates over higher education, acclaimed historian Ellen Schrecker argues that the American university is under attack from two fronts. On the one hand, outside pressure groups have staged massive challenges to academic freedom, beginning in the 1960s with attacks on faculty who opposed the Vi...