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Campus - Corporate Power in the Ivory Tower (Hardcover)
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Campus - Corporate Power in the Ivory Tower (Hardcover)
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The university, as a core institution of democratic society, is
increasingly threatened by the intrusion of big business.
Corporations are working their way into academe in subtle and
obvious ways: granting of exclusive concessions rights on campus to
a softdrink manufacturer; use of a major portion of the resources,
faculty, and research efforts of university departments by a
particular company in exchange for modest funding; university
administrators whose salaries are often doubled for service on the
boards of important corporate contributors. Compounding the problem
is the growing scarcity of public funding, which makes universities
vulnerable to the lure of big money from pharmaceutical and
biotechnology firms, computer giants, and wealthy private donors.
Can faculty members remain independent under such heavy corporate
influence? How does big money influence the direction of research?
These are among the serious questions raised by the revealing
articles in this thought-provoking and disturbing collection.
Campus, Inc. exposes this new form of corporate welfare through
hard research. More importantly, it emphasizes the necessity of
preserving the democratic character of the university with its
independent inquiry, diversity of viewpoints, and disinterested
expertise. The authors also provide real and replicable examples,
from the front-line of the movement, of actions that have been
taken against campus corporatization: Successful efforts to take
universities off the corporate auction block are becoming more
common. A new era of student activism has helped roll back the sale
of sweatshop-produced items in campus stores; the re-emergence of
unions has helped faculty organize to prevent "hostile takeovers"
of our publicly funded institutions; and effective strategies to
redemocratize the university are increasingly available.
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