The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule within America's Universities

Critics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academy's "corporatization" as one of its defining...
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Author: Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
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Language: English
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The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule within America's Universities by Kaufman-Osborn, Timothy V.

The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule within America's Universities

€64,11

The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule within America's Universities

€64,11
Author: Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Critics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academy's "corporatization" as one of its defining maladies. However, in The Autocratic Academy Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn argues that American colleges and universities have always been organized as corporations in which the power to rule is legally vested in and monopolized by antidemocratic governing boards. This institutional form, Kaufman-Osborn contends, is antithetical to the free inquiry that defines the purpose of higher education. Tracing the history of the American academy from the founding of Harvard (1636), through the Supreme Court's Dartmouth v. Woodward ruling (1819), and into the twenty-first century, Kaufman-Osborn shows how the university's autocratic legal constitution is now yoked to its representation on the model of private property. Explaining why appeals to the cause of shared governance cannot succeed in wresting power from the academy's autocrats, Kaufman-Osborn argues that American universities must now be reincorporated in accordance with the principles of democratic republicanism. Only then can the academy's members hold accountable those chosen to govern and collectively determine the disposition of higher education's unique public goods.

Author: Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 04/07/2023
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781478019824

About the Author
Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn is Baker Ferguson Professor of Politics and Leadership Emeritus at Whitman College and author of From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State and Creatures of Prometheus: Gender and the Politics of Technology.

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