Leasing the Ivory Tower : the Corporate Takeover of Academia
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Description
This text exposes the growing corporate threats to the future of intellectual inquiry and civil society itself. Corporate investments, Soley argures, have dramatically changed the mission of higher education; they have led universities to attend to the interests of their well-heeled patrons, rather than those of students.
ISBN
9780896085046
Publication Date
1995
Publisher
South End Press
City
Boston
Keywords
Endowment of research, corporations
Disciplines
Communication
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Table of Contents
Underneath the ivy
The CEOs : the college executive officers
Sharing biomedical knowledge
Nobody's business but their own
The unsocial sciences
The centers for corporate research
Right-thinking campus think tanks
Servicing their patrons
The social costs of corporate ties