From Inside Higher Ed, a discussion with an author about a new book on the shift in higher education to corporate values and its impact on the professorship.

Two much-discussed trends in academe — the adoption of corporate values and the decline in the percentage of faculty jobs that are on the tenure track — are closely linked and require joint examination. That is the thesis of a new book, The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, just published by Fordham University Press.

The trends expressed in the article are certainly reflected at my own university. We've even stopped talking about our vision for liberal education and now refer to the "business plan." We dropped the expression "learner-centered" and now strive to "develop talent." And non-tenured faculty dramatically outnumber tenured/tenure-track faculty.

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