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By Gaye Tuchman

Based on years of statement at a wide country college, Wannabe U tracks the dispiriting effects of buying and selling in conventional academic values for loyalty to the industry. Aping their boardroom idols, the hot company directors at such universities wander from task to task and reductively view the scholars there as destiny employees short of education. keen about measurable successes, they tension auditing and responsibility, which ends up in rules of surveillance and regulate dubiously cloaked within the guise of clinical management. during this eye-opening exposé of the fashionable college, Tuchman paints a candid portrait of the corporatization of upper schooling and its impression on scholars and faculty. 

Like the simplest campus novelists, Tuchman entertains together with her acidly witty observations of behind the scenes energy dynamics and college politics, yet eventually Wannabe U is a hard-hitting account of the way better education’s faulty pursuit of luck fails us all.

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