The public representation of the American college campus.

Part of a special issue on the public representation of culture and history. The writer contends that the most important change currently occurring in the academy is that the “hallowed” or “sacrosanct” idea of the university campus is being eroded. dwindling. He asserts that professors and what th...

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Publicado en:American Behavioral Scientist Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 1064 - 1072
Autor principal: Chace, William M.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. March 1999
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Sumario:Part of a special issue on the public representation of culture and history. The writer contends that the most important change currently occurring in the academy is that the “hallowed” or “sacrosanct” idea of the university campus is being eroded. dwindling. He asserts that professors and what they have stood for have been “desanctifed.” In addition, he argues that over the next ten years, the fuller emergence of manifest class differences will occur. He predicts that the gap between winners and losers will become impossible to hide on the campus and that it will be increasingly impossible to immunize the campus from its surroundings.