October 17, 2010
Are We Commodities?
If so, we're selling ourselves cheaply
When critics decry the "corporatization" of the university, they are referring to a number of trends that have transformed the character of higher education in recent years. Outsourcing a variety of nonacademic jobs that were once performed by university employees to large, external companies; forging entangling relationships with the corporate world; encouraging the growing presence of corporations to run bookstores, food services, etc. on campus; providing salaries for college officials
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