The Higher Learning in America: The Annotated Edition: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men

The Higher Learning in America: The Annotated Edition: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men

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The first scholarly edition of Thorstein Veblens classic indictment of the corporate model of American university governance.Since its publication in 1918, Thorstein Veblens The Higher Learning in America has remained a text that every serious student of the American university must confront. Intellectual historian Richard Teichgraeber brings us the first scholarly edition of Veblens classic, thoroughly edited, annotated, and indexed. An extensive introduction discusses the books composition and publishing history, Veblens debts to earlier critics of the American university, and the place of The Higher Learning in America in current debates about the American university.Veblens insights into the American university system at the outset of the twentieth century are as provocative today as they were when first published. Insisting that institutions of higher learning should be dedicated solely to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, he urged American universities to abandon commitments to extraneous pursuits such as athletics, community service, and vocational education. He also believed that the corporate model of governancewith university boards of trustees dominated by welltodo businessmen and university presidents who functioned essentially as businessmen in academic dressmandated unsavory techniques of salesmanship and selfpromotion that threatened to reduce institutions of higher learning to the status of competitive business enterprises.With a detailed chronology, suggested readings, and comprehensive notes identifying events, individuals, and institutions to which Veblen alludes, this volume is sure to become the standard teaching text for Veblens classic work and an invaluable resource for students of both the history and the current workings of the American university.

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