Book - Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University

After six years of research, a socialogist publishes a book (keeping the name of the campus confidential, but it's probably the University of Connecticut) about campus culture and faculty-administrator rifts. Scott Jaschik, in Inside Higher Ed, writes a lengthy discussion of the book

:Most administrators haven't seen it yet.

But one who has -- James C. Garland, the retired president of Miami University, in Ohio -- gave it a mixed review in two posts on his blog. He praises the perspective Tuchman provides as one who is not a decision maker on campus. "Wannabe U made me squirm at times, because many of the examples paralleled my own experiences. And therein lies the book’s value. I hope my administrative colleagues will read this book, not because they will agree with it, or even because it is, as the dust cover asserts, 'an eye-opening expose of the modern university.' They should read it because people in power seldom understand how their actions are viewed by others, and why their good deeds and intentions often provoke suspicion and mistrust," he writes in his first post.