Shakespeare, Einstein, and the bottom line : the marketing of higher education / David L. Kirp.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.Description: vi, 328 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0674011465 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB 2342.8 .K57 2003
Contents:
Introduction : the new U -- This little student went to market -- Nietzsche's niche : the University of Chicago -- Benjamin Rush's "brat" : Dickinson College -- Star wars : New York University -- The dead hand of precedent : New York Law School -- Kafka was an optimist : the University of Southern California and the University of Michigan -- Mr. Jefferson's "private" college : Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia -- Rebel alliance : classics departments in the Associated Colleges of the South -- The market in ideas : Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- The British are coming, and going : Open University -- A good deal of collaboration : the University of California, Berkeley -- The information technology gold rush : IT certification courses in Silicon Valley -- They're all business : DeVry University -- Conclusion : the corporation of learning.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-314) and index.

Introduction : the new U -- This little student went to market -- Nietzsche's niche : the University of Chicago -- Benjamin Rush's "brat" : Dickinson College -- Star wars : New York University -- The dead hand of precedent : New York Law School -- Kafka was an optimist : the University of Southern California and the University of Michigan -- Mr. Jefferson's "private" college : Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia -- Rebel alliance : classics departments in the Associated Colleges of the South -- The market in ideas : Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- The British are coming, and going : Open University -- A good deal of collaboration : the University of California, Berkeley -- The information technology gold rush : IT certification courses in Silicon Valley -- They're all business : DeVry University -- Conclusion : the corporation of learning.

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