This talk from David L. Kirp, for the sixth annual Monan Lecture on Higher Education, shares its title with Kirp's recently published book. Kirp describes the conflict between the ways in which American universities are increasingly pressured to function as businesses within a competitive market, and their educational goals.
David L. Kirp is a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. A former newspaper editor as well as an academic, his interests range widely across social policy. Throughout his career, he has written about gender, race, education, affirmative action, housing and AIDS. Much of his work addresses the question of justice, not as theory but in practice.
