"Colleges have been rapidly corporatizing. That¹s old news. But too rarely considered is the machinery that has inspired, enabled, and accelerated that corporatization. Enterprise systems, business process reengineering, balanced scorecard, computer business systems. In this new millennium, chances are excellent that the college you work for has for years been spending some three-quarters of its IT budget on such networks.
The impact of these systems has most often been for the worse, catalyzing
the most dehumanizing aspects of corporatization..."
The impact of these systems has most often been for the worse, catalyzing
the most dehumanizing aspects of corporatization..."
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Illustration for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
