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Feb 15, 2005 · 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...
Aug 1, 2008 · University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education. Jennifer Washburn. Basic Books, Aug 1, 2008 - Education - 416 pages. Our federal and state tax dollars are going to...
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Aug 22, 2006 · 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.
- Jennifer Washburn
I graduated from the University of Southern California and had a sense that something was amiss in the university system. Back then, I saw a university that catered strongly to the football program and felt like I was getting the scraps. The football program brought in the money and with the latest successes some immeasurable advertising.
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In University Inc., Washburn reveals how conflicts of interest, involving individual scientists and often entire universities, have led to compromised research and a loss of scholarly independence. This toxic mix of science and profit in areas ranging from medicine to the environment jeopardizes the well-being of millions who rely on the historic impartiality of academic research.
Ohio State is one of the largest universities in the nation. It's also home to a diverse group of the best and brightest people in the world: dedicated faculty ...
In higher education today, a wholesale culture shift is transforming everything from the way universities educate their students to the language they use to define what they do. Academic administrators increasingly refer to students as consumers and to education and research as products. They talk about branding and marketing and now spend more on lobbying in Washington than defense contractors do. Corporate funding of universities is growing and the money comes with strings attached. In ...
