The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Companies That Colleges Keep

From food services to bookstores to campus security, outsourcing has become the way to do business

By BEN GOSE

Follet runs the Stanford Bookstore. Aramark prepares the meals at Yale University. And Barnes & Noble manages the Harvard Coop. The nation's most prestigious universities -- and many others in academe -- increasingly contract out portions of their campus...

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