How Harvard Rules: Reason in the Service of Empire - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896082830 ISBN 13: 9780896082830

Publisher: South End Press, 1999

Synopsis

Mixing lively critique with historical analysis, How Harvard Rules opens a new window towards understanding the workings of one of the nation's most influential universities.

About this title

From Library Journal:

A scathing indictment of Harvard that goes well beyond the fact that it is generally perceived as elitist. The contributors to this book, all Harvard graduates or faculty, assert that Harvard is, at least partially, racist, ethnocentric, sexist, and hostile to progressive intellectuals, and that it has compromised its independence. Frankly, this is a hard book to assess objectively without inside knowledge. However, the authors have made a strong case for several of the charges. First, it seems apparent tht the Harvard Corporation and administration wield disporportionate power over decisions which legitimately belong to the faculty; second, appointments are, in part, political decisions not based on merit, especially for the younger faculty with left-of-center views. Some parts of the book are simply mean-spirited. However, the issues raised and the documentation presented combine to make this a book which will undoubtedly focus national attention on the problems facing the research university in the 1990s. Recommended.
- Richard H. Quay, Miami Univ . Libs., Oxford, Ohio
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: South End Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0896082830
• ISBN 13: 9780896082830
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450
• Editor: Trumpbour John