Palinurus: The Academy and the Corporation

Teaching the Humanities in a Restructured World

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Front Matter

• RATIONALE
• EXPLANATION OF "PALINURUS" TITLE
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Main Contents

• FEATURED CONTROVERSIES
  1. Grade Inflation and Corporatism (U.S.)
  2. Dearing Report (U.K.)
  3. Cal State "Technology Infrastructure Initiative" (U.S.)
  4. New Zealand "Green Paper" and Its Critics
• SUGGESTED READINGS
  1. THE IDEA OF BUSINESS
     • History of Business
     • Postindustrial Business Principles
     • Professional / Managerial / Technical "New Class"
     • Business and Society
     • Critics of Business
  2. THE IDEA OF THE UNIVERSITY
     • General Resources
     • History of the University
     • Intellectuals
     • Diversity Issues
     • Economics of Education
     • Contemporary Reflections on the University
  3. ACADEME AND BUSINESS
     • General Resources
     • Academe Imitates the Corporation
     • Business Imitates Academe
     • Intellectuals & Knowledge Workers (see separately)
     • Academic / Corporate Collaborations
     • Critique of Making Higher Education a Business
     • Business Critique of Education
  4. INFORMATION TECH AND THE ACADEMY
     • General Resources
     • The Idea of Technology
     • Information Technology: An Idea and Culture
     • Information Initiatives in Higher Education
     • Historical Information Technology: Orality to Hypertext
     • Critical Reflections on Information Technology
  5. RECENT WORKS
     • On Higher Education
     • On Business
     • On Information Technology
  6. USER-ADDED WORKS
  7. USER-ADDED LINKS
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• CONTRIBUTORS

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(Last Revised: 1/30/01 )