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Reflecting on the Future of Academia: From the Vantage of Community College

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2025

Elsa Dias*
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Pikes Peak State College , USA

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Rethinking the Corporate University: An Engagement with Kaufman-Osborn’s The Autocratic Academy
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of American Political Science Association

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