Campus, Inc.: Corporate Power in the Ivory Tower / Edition 1

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Overview

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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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781573928106
  • Publisher: Prometheus Books
  • Publication date: 7/28/2000
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 450
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Geoffry D. White, Ph.D. (Los Angeles, CA), an award-winning psychologist, has many interests including campaign finance reform and developing a single-payer health care system in California. For ten years he was a professor of psychology at California State University, Fullerton. He is now in private practice.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 11
Preface 13
Introduction: The Struggle That Matters the Most 17
1 The Tricks of Academe 29
2 The Goods at Their Worst: Campus Procurement in the Global Pillage 36
3 Money Changers in the Temple 51
4 Succeed with Caution: Rethinking Academic Culture at RPI, PSU, and CSU 55
5 Resisting Corporatization of the University 61
6 The Myth of the Liberal Campus 85
7 Dead Souls: The Aftermath of Bayh-Dole 95
8 Tough Customers: Business' Plan to Corner the Student Market 106
9 Faculty Workers: Tenure on the Corporate Assembly Line 119
10 Professors Going Pro: The Commercialization of Teaching, Research, and Service 140
11 Give Me an $: Moonlighting in the Company Boardroom 157
12 How Free Is Higher Education? 173
13 Spook School: The CIA at RIT 180
14 Penn and Inc.: Incorporating the University of Pennsylvania 194
15 Wiring the World: Ameritech's Monopoly on the Virtual Classroom 218
16 Toil and Trouble: Student Activism in the Fight against Sweatshops 237
17 Screw-U: The Anti-CETI Movement at San Francisco State University 253
18 Learning to Think Like a Harvard Economist 273
19 Conquering Goliath: The Free Burma Coalition Takes Down Pepsico 280
20 Social Choice for Social Change: Campaign for a New TIAA-CREF 291
21 Take Back the University: Only Unions Can Save Academic Life 297
22 Perils of the Knowledge Industry: How a Faculty Union Blocked an Unfriendly Takeover 319
23 Justice for Janitors: Organizing against Outsourcing at Southampton College 342
24 Student Union: Labor, Community, and Campus Unite to Fight Defunding 358
25 Greed in the Groves 373
26 In the Hands of Youth: The Coming Struggle for Campus Democracy 375
27 Do Your Homework: Research and Organizing Advice for Corporate Combatants 399
28 Keep Your Room Clean: How to Uncover Corporate and Military Influence on Your Campus 405
29 Pocket Change or Social Change? University Investment Responsibility and Activism 418
30 Take the Pledge: A Promise of Social and Environmental Responsibility 438
Afterword: Business School: An Interview with Noam Chomsky 441
App.: Organizations and Publications: For Further Research 457
Contributors 467
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