This controversial book contends that the American university, most particularly the large research university, has become an alien and unresponsive place to those students seeking challenges to their ideas and imagination. Now an English professor at the University of Illinois argues that the university is primarily set up to minister to the needs of professors and bureaucrats, who may not act in the students' best interests.
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This controversial book contends that the American university, most particularly the large research university, has become an alien and unresponsive place to those students seeking challenges to their ideas and imagination. Now an English professor at the University of Illinois argues that the university is primarily set up to minister to the needs of professors and bureaucrats, who may not act in the students' best interests.
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