The Autocratic AcademyCritics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academys corporatization as one of its defining maladies. However, argues Timothy V. Kaufman Osborn in The Autocratic Academy, American colleges and universities have always been organized as corporations in which the power to rule is legally vested in and monopolized by antidemocratic governing boards. This institutional form, Kaufman Osborn contends, is antithetical to the free inquiry