The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities
by Frank Donoghue
Fordham University Press, 2008 172 pp., $22M
How the University Works:
Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation
by Marc Bousquet
NYU Press, 2008 304 pp., $23
IN 1968, Christopher Jencks and David Riesman published a book called The Academic Revolution. It tells the success story of American higher education, from small, sectarian colleges to the major universities of the postwar era. Its revolution is not that of students but the professionalization of faculty and the new stress on research. Jencks and Riesman observe that, for the first time in American history, professors were more preoccupied with research than teaching, with their discipline than their campus, and with graduate education than undergraduate. Stressing “the rise to power of the academic professions,” Jencks and ...
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