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THE AUTOCRATIC ACADEMY IBD

TIMOTHY V KAUFMAN OSBORN
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
04 / 2023
9781478019824
Anglès

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Critics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academyâÇÖs 'corporatization' as one of its defining maladies. However, in The Autocratic AcademyáTimothy V. Kaufman-Osborn argues thatáAmerican colleges and universities have always been organized as corporations in which the power to rule is legally vested in and monopolized by antidemocratic governing boards. This institutional form, Kaufman-Osborn contends, is antithetical to the free inquiry that defines the purpose of higher education. Tracing the history of the American academy from the founding of Harvard (1636), through the Supreme CourtâÇÖs Dartmouth v. Woodward ruling (1819), and into the twenty-first century, Kaufman-Osborn shows how the universityâÇÖs autocratic legal constitution is now yoked to its representation on the model of private property. Explaining why appeals to the cause of shared governance cannot succeed in wresting power from the academyâÇÖs autocrats, Kaufman-Osborn argues that American universities must now be reincorporated in accordance with the principles of democratic republicanism. Only then can the academyâÇÖs members hold accountable those chosen to govern and collectively determine the disposition of higher educationâÇÖs unique public goods.

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