{"product_id":"the-autocratic-academy-reenvisioning-rule-within-americas-universities-paperback","title":"The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule within America's Universities - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy V. Kaufman-Osborn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academy's \"corporatization\" as one of its defining maladies. However, in \u003ci\u003eThe Autocratic Academy\u003c\/i\u003e Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn argues that American colleges and universities have always been organized as corporations in which the power to rule is legally vested in and monopolized by antidemocratic governing boards. This institutional form, Kaufman-Osborn contends, is antithetical to the free inquiry that defines the purpose of higher education. Tracing the history of the American academy from the founding of Harvard (1636), through the Supreme Court's \u003ci\u003eDartmouth v. Woodward\u003c\/i\u003e ruling (1819), and into the twenty-first century, Kaufman-Osborn shows how the university's autocratic legal constitution is now yoked to its representation on the model of private property. Explaining why appeals to the cause of shared governance cannot succeed in wresting power from the academy's autocrats, Kaufman-Osborn argues that American universities must now be reincorporated in accordance with the principles of democratic republicanism. Only then can the academy's members hold accountable those chosen to govern and collectively determine the disposition of higher education's unique public goods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimothy V. Kaufman-Osborn is Baker Ferguson Professor of Politics and Leadership Emeritus at Whitman College and author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCreatures of Prometheus: Gender and the Politics of Technology\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52513021362483,"sku":"9781478019824","price":53.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/9CP1MESj1D9781478019824.webp?v=1760356485","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-autocratic-academy-reenvisioning-rule-within-americas-universities-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}