Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
2011 Topic: Education as Commodity: Liberal Arts Education in the Consumer Age
Contemporary higher education is increasingly dominated by the realities and metaphors of the market economy. Education is an investment or a product. Students are consumers. Admissions counselors are salespeople and professors deliver their customers goods and services. Write an essay about this mindset and how it has affected your education. Have your attitudes towards the commoditization of education changed during your time at Butler? Fundamentally, how can or should liberal arts education fit within this worldview?
Recommended Citation
Sippola, Ben, "Metaphors of the Market Economy and The Learning Community" (2011). Kristi Schultz Broughton Liberal Arts Essay Contest. 7.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/las_essays/7