The author focuses her attention and dismay on the relentless growth in the commercialization of education and scholarship within universities, the resultant diminishment of the intellectual commons, and the elimination or blurring of the boundaries that separate the distinct values and
virtues of academic life from those of the commercial sector.
Not exact matches
A Modest Defense
of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits by Emrys Westacott Princeton, 304 pages, $ 26.95 In The
Virtues of Our Vices, Emrys Westacott eschews
academic theorizing about hypothetical
life - and - death moral dilemmas (such as the «trolley problem»)....
Dr. Gadsden's research and scholarly interests focus on children and families across the
life - course, from early childhood through the aging process, particularly children and families at the greatest risk for
academic and social vulnerability by
virtue of race, gender, ethnicity, poverty, and immigrant status.