An important work on the higher education system and its discontents. Why are our schools operating as corporations, and what does this mean for the future of education? The author examines the history of academic freedom, then moves into the evolution of the school from an institution of higher learning directed in large part by the faculty to a corporation in the business of delivering degrees directed in large part by the administrators who are more interested in concrete measures of success, such as numbers of butts in seats, then in more nebulous ones, such as the quality of education delivered. Should be required reading for everyone who has been subjected to the ubiquitous propaganda machine that trumpets the evils of modern higher education; if you have ever bemoaned the "indoctrination" or snarked about the easy life of an academic, or asked why we need humanities education anyway, this book is just what you need. ( )