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Palinurus: The Academy and the Corporation: Teaching the Humanities in a Restructured World

This pilot site, maintained by Professor Alan Liu of the University of California-Santa Barbara, author of the Voice of the Shuttle site (described in the Scout Report for May 30, 1997), was created by humanities scholars to examine the practical and intellectual challenges faced by higher education in a post-industrial world. In today's "information society," "knowledge work" in the business and academic worlds have begun to merge. As any tenured or aspiring academic will tell you, pressures on university departments to downsize and restructure have never been greater, and academia now ignores the lessons and laws of the business world at its own peril. This site reflects on these issues through a hypertext linked bibliography of Suggested Readings, Featured Controversies (Grade Inflation, Faculty Against IT, and others), and in the future, plans to link resources and courses "relevant to the role of higher education in contemporary society." The Discussion Topics and Gallery of Quotes sections offer suggestions on using the bibliography and a Discussion Board is provided for user responses.
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October 16th, 1998
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April 7th, 2003 at 1:20pm
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April 7th, 2003 at 1:20pm
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