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From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
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Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving… More >>
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California’s Gold: Claiming the Promise of Diversity in Our Community Colleges
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Californias Community Colleges comprise the largest and most diverse system of higher education in the world. For Californians who have traditionally faced barriers to schooling communities of color, immigrants, low-income and first generation college-goers the system is the main gateway to higher education. People of color make up 55% of the student body, and immigrants 25%. What do they have to say about how the colleges are fulfilling their historic mission of … More >>
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