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Edubusiness and Edutainment
Wealthy Benefactors and Sporting Contributions to the Campus Party
From: Degrees of Failure
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The rise of the corporate edutainment university portends something new and different that goes well beyond the existence of a social side in college life. Changes in the policies and programs put into place by individual universities and governments can alter how intersections of social class, gender, and ethnicity influence student outcomes and life chances. What emerges is a trend towards what has been called the “country-clubization” of universities, where increased spending on student services such as recreation and athletics has greatly outstripped that on academic instruction and financial help for the disadvantaged.
