reposted with permission of J.S. Gangolly from: Accounting Education using
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J.S. Gangolly writes:
Some of us may be interested in these two fascinating sites that address
questions such as:
Are universities becoming EMOs (educational Maintenance Organisations)?
Are faculty being reduced to hired help?
Are university administrators becoming vendor-agents and corporate managers
(rather than Scholar-administrators?)
Are faculty losing control of the product of their labour?
...
...
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_1/noble/
http://www.coolclass.com/newsletter/vol01no02-clarke.html
While I did not get into teaching to get rich (in fact I got out of the rich
corporate world and into teaching, to escape intellectual drudgery), and I
am glad that I am not at the beginning of my career, I do feel sad about the
passing of an era.
The society has to clarify what our rights as academics are just as it is
grappling with the issues of intellectual property rights in this electronic
age. Nowadays I find that school administrators smell money a lot faster
than they do intellectually stimulating ideas. What a pity the age of
scholar-administrators is coming to an end, supplanted by that of
pencil-pushing career manager-bureaucratic education merchants. Is this the
intellectual equivalent of the supplanting of the age of chivalry by that of
book-keepers?
Respectfully submitted,
Jagdish
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Jagdish S. Gangolly, Associate Professor (
j.gangolly@albany.edu)
State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222.
Phone: (518) 442-4949 Fax: (707) 897-0601
URL:
http://www.albany.edu/acc/gangolly
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