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This book examines the historical transition of university faculty from religious leaders devoted to Christ to business-minded employees dedicated to the ideals of efficiency. The author argues that the commercialization of higher education threatens academic freedom and the preservation of intellectual and moral standards. The book highlights the importance of restoring the power and influence of faculty in order to safeguard the true purpose of universities: the pursuit of knowledge and the development of well-rounded individuals. Its insights are crucial for anyone concerned about the future of higher education and its ability to foster critical thinking, creativity, and the search for truth.
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Excerpt from The Changing Conception of the Faculty in American Universities
And here we have to stop a moment to notice a futile remedy that appears in many forms. It is the remedy of committees and departments and councils and senates. We are organized to death. It is the worship of mach inery all over again. Of course these things have con stant and even indispensable uses. Of course we must know where things are, or we shall never find them. For the routine business, the ever recurring humdrum task, the mechanics and economics of our work, we shall always be needing these things, - but always as our ser vants, never as our masters. If behind the complex of our committees we do not have the watchful criticism and active co - operation of the whole faculty, - if the faculty does not really understand what its agents are doing, or what their measures mean, then the committees are vir tually the faculty, and the faculty becomes little more than a listless and dwindling audience. This may possibly do well enough for routine business, but never for the under standing or co - operative execution of a great policy. For unless a faculty actually controls all its parts and agen cies, it cannot do its business in the best way, nor can it long maintain its just freedom.
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