Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education
“How can you turn an English department into a revenue center? How do you grade students if they are “”customers”" you must please? How do you keep industry from dictating a university’s research agenda? What happens when the life of the mind meets the bottom line? Wry and insightful, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line takes us on a cross-country tour of the most powerful trend in academic life today–the rise of business values and the belief that efficienc… More >>
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