Honoring the Trust: Quality and Cost Containment in Higher Education (review)
contributors telling their stories. For “theft”, as discussed in the book’s first section, suggests that something is being stolen from “traditional” academics by outsiders, business leaders and corporations. However, the stories of graduate assistants, adjunct faculty, and organizers suggest quite a different picture, of many tenure-track faculty joining administrators in fighting unionization, in seeking to maintain existing hierarchies, and effectively internalizing and advancing an academic capitalist agenda in a new economy (Slaughter and Rhoades forthcoming) of academic employment. That story, offering a fuller and more complex understanding of the current state of the university (and of community colleges), makes this a valuable book.