"professionalization of everything - the provision of degrees for so many different kinds of work - is one form in which higher education acts opportunistically. That is: it attracts more customers for credit hours with the (increasingly hollow promise of the kinds of security nostalgically associated with the classical professions of law, medicine, education, and so forth." (p. 148)
- Marc Bousquet's How the university works : higher education and the low-wage nation (New York: New York University Press, 2008), p. 148.
Recommended list:
Cary Nelson's No university is an island : saving academic freedom (New York: New York University Press, 2010), and the right-wing activist David Horowitz's The professors : the 101 most dangerous academics in America (Washington, DC: Regnery Pub., 2006).
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