Mildred A. Schwartz, Ph.D. (1965), Columbia University, is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Visiting Scholar at New York University, and 2012-13 network fellow at the Edward J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. A political sociologist, she has moved from her past work on political organizations to her current interest in the organization of higher education in the health fields and its tendencies to corruption.

• Acknowledgments1. The Corruption of Higher EducationEncountering CorruptionJustifying a LabelExisting Explanations of CorruptionOutline of the Book2. Sickness in the Midst of HealthThe Origins of UMDNJUMDNJ CorruptedAn Unhealthy Example3. Educational Conditions and EnvironmentsHigher EducationMedical EducationThe Role of the StateAnticipated ImpactExplaining Organizational Corruption4. UMDNJ’s Core OrganizationCore ActorsRelations within the CoreVulnerability within the Core5. UMDNJ’s Network OrganizationThe Network DefinedNew Jersey GovernmentState Oversight AgenciesStatus-Conferring AgentsCommunity-Based ActorsVulnerability in the NetworkOrganizational Vulnerability6. Reorganization and BreakupMcGreevey’s PlanChristie’s PlanDeath and Afterlife7. How the Education of Health Care Professionals Became CorruptedExplaining How UMDNJ Became a ‘School for Scandal’UMDNJ as an Exemplar of Global CorruptionAssigning BlameLessons from UMDNJReferencesIndex

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Mildred A. Schwartz, Ph.D. (1965), Columbia University, is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Visiting Scholar at New York University, and 2012-13 network fellow at the Edward J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. A political sociologist, she has moved from her past work on political organizations to her current interest in the organization of higher education in the health fields and its tendencies to corruption.

• Acknowledgments1. The Corruption of Higher EducationEncountering CorruptionJustifying a LabelExisting Explanations of CorruptionOutline of the Book2. Sickness in the Midst of HealthThe Origins of UMDNJUMDNJ CorruptedAn Unhealthy Example3. Educational Conditions and EnvironmentsHigher EducationMedical EducationThe Role of the StateAnticipated ImpactExplaining Organizational Corruption4. UMDNJ’s Core OrganizationCore ActorsRelations within the CoreVulnerability within the Core5. UMDNJ’s Network OrganizationThe Network DefinedNew Jersey GovernmentState Oversight AgenciesStatus-Conferring AgentsCommunity-Based ActorsVulnerability in the NetworkOrganizational Vulnerability6. Reorganization and BreakupMcGreevey’s PlanChristie’s PlanDeath and Afterlife7. How the Education of Health Care Professionals Became CorruptedExplaining How UMDNJ Became a ‘School for Scandal’UMDNJ as an Exemplar of Global CorruptionAssigning BlameLessons from UMDNJReferencesIndex

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Mildred A. Schwartz, Ph.D. (1965), Columbia University, is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Visiting Scholar at New York University, and 2012-13 network fellow at the Edward J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. A political sociologist, she has moved from her past work on political organizations to her current interest in the organization of higher education in the health fields and its tendencies to corruption.

• Acknowledgments1. The Corruption of Higher EducationEncountering CorruptionJustifying a LabelExisting Explanations of CorruptionOutline of the Book2. Sickness in the Midst of HealthThe Origins of UMDNJUMDNJ CorruptedAn Unhealthy Example3. Educational Conditions and EnvironmentsHigher EducationMedical EducationThe Role of the StateAnticipated ImpactExplaining Organizational Corruption4. UMDNJ’s Core OrganizationCore ActorsRelations within the CoreVulnerability within the Core5. UMDNJ’s Network OrganizationThe Network DefinedNew Jersey GovernmentState Oversight AgenciesStatus-Conferring AgentsCommunity-Based ActorsVulnerability in the NetworkOrganizational Vulnerability6. Reorganization and BreakupMcGreevey’s PlanChristie’s PlanDeath and Afterlife7. How the Education of Health Care Professionals Became CorruptedExplaining How UMDNJ Became a ‘School for Scandal’UMDNJ as an Exemplar of Global CorruptionAssigning BlameLessons from UMDNJReferencesIndex

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