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Ellen Schrecker

Historian

Ellen Schrecker appears in the following:

The Lost Soul of Higher Education

Friday, December 17, 2010

Historian Ellen Schrecker discusses the current battles over higher education, the challenges to academic freedom, and the rapidly changing structure of American Universities. Her book The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University looks at the effects of ideological assaults on academic freedom and decades of eroding higher education budgets.