University, Inc.

The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education

By: Jennifer Washburn

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Paperback | 22 August 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Our federal and state tax dollars are going to fund higher education. If corporations kick in a little more, should they be able to dictate the research or own the discoveries? During the past two decades, commercial forces have quietly transformed virtually every aspect of academic life. Corporate funding of universities is growing and the money comes with strings attached. In return for this funding, universities and professors are acting more and more like for-profit patent factories: university funds are shifting from the humanities and the less profitable science departments into research labs, and the skill of teaching is valued less and less. Slowly but surely, universities are abandoning their traditional role as disinterested sources of education, alternative perspectives, and wisdom. This growing influence of corporations over universities affects more than just today's college students (and their parents); it compromises the future of all those whose careers depend on a university education, and all those who will be employed, governed, or taught by the products of American universities.

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Non-Fiction Education Teaching of Specific Groups with Special Educational Needs Organisation & Management of Education Examinations & Assessment Higher & Further Education Funding of Education & Student Finance

Introduction	p. IX
A New Kind of Uprising at Berkeley	p. 1
The Lessons of History	p. 25
The Birth of the Market-Model U.	p. 49
The Republic of Science in Turmoil	p. 73
Are Conflicts of Interest Hazardous to Our Health?	p. 103
The University as Business	p. 137
Dreaming of Silicon Valley	p. 171
Paying More for Less: The Commercial Squeeze on Teaching & the Humanities	p. 199
The Path Forward: Preserving the Public Domain	p. 225
Acknowledgments	p. 243
Notes	p. 247
Index	p. 309
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