University Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780465090525)

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.

Author: Jennifer Washburn
ISBN-10: 0465090524
ISBN-13: 9780465090525
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2006
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.34w x 0.91d