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Ivory Tower Inc.

By Jon Whiten

For those of us who have flirted with a life in academia, Marc Bousquet’s How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (NYU Press, January 2008) may help explain why so many of us dumped the love affair before it ever began. In his trenchant critique, Bousquet, an associate professor of English at Santa Clara University and a major… return to article

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