Values in Conflict: The University, the Marketplace, and the Trials of Liberal Education

by Paul Axelrod

Values in Conflict is a clarion call to policy-makers, business leaders, and the public at large to rethink the current direction of the contemporary university. Paul Axelrod demonstrates that liberal education, the core of higher learning, is threatened by the constricting pressures of the marketplace and shows how political and economic pressures are redefining higher learning. Axelrod demonstrates how, in the race for riches - symbolized by endless...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077352407X
• ISBN13: 9780773524071
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"