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In Degrees of Failure, Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show how continuing inequities, grounded in large part upon social class differences, are maintained and reproduced in our universities.

Paying special attention to the role played by professors in solidifying status-quo arrangements, Nelsen makes the strange familiar for those outside the university bureaucracy and the familiar strange for those whose participation in university settings is a routine part of everyday life.

“Randle Nelsen drills down deep into the failures of our universities in order to expose the charade of edutainment and edubusiness models of corporate learning that contaminate everything from parking lot access to cheating. Recoiling at the coddled campus he finds populated by intrusive helicopter parents, servile professionals, and facile administrators, Nelsen offers engaging and timely suggestions for reclaiming learning, starting in the classroom.” – Gary Genosko, professor of communication and digital media studies, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

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