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dc.contributor.author Comrie, Andrew C.
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-08T03:20:02Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-08T03:20:02Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.isbn Digital (PDF): 9781800641099
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/1517
dc.description 488 p. ; PDF en_US
dc.description.abstract Universities are fascinating institutions. For almost 1,000 years, these corporations of teachers and scholars have been searching for knowledge and transmitting it. In carrying out this mission, universities are “things of unruly paradox”1 that operate as the birthplace and battlefield of ideas, constantly enlightening, challenging, solving, confounding, serving, criticizing, creating, reasoning, and frustrating both themselves and their stakeholders. And yet, focusing on my initial term above, universities are corporations too. In fact, universitas, the Latin root of the word, literally means “corporation” as in a company or guild.2 It’s odd, then, as institutions built on the very notion of knowing, that the people in and associated with universities know so little about them as corporations in the business-oriented sense of the word. That’s the charge I’m taking on in this book: to explain how the business of the university works, to provide a grounding in what people want to know and ought to know about how money really flows in and around these vital institutions. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Open Book Publishers en_US
dc.subject University budget en_US
dc.title LIKE NOBODY’S BUSINESS en_US
dc.title.alternative An Insider’s Guide to How US University Finances Really Work en_US
dc.type Book en_US


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