The Academic Industrial Complex
Felicia R. Lee,
New York Times,
Sept 07, 2003
Good article documenting the conversion of academia into a profit center, a theme familiar to readers of these pages. "Market. Consumers. Branding. That we take for granted that higher education is a business is a huge step toward the marketization of higher education." One nice thing about this article is that it draws a clear dark line between the growing commercialism of academia and its continuing retreat from the principles of public education. "It's a disincentive to create economic diversity. It tends to create a very self-reverential notion of higher education and to destroy efforts on broader social issues on which higher education should provide leadership."
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