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Author: Jennifer Washburn
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0465090516

University, Inc: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education

Our federal and state tax dollars are going to fund higher education. Download University, Inc: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. If corporations kick in a little more, should they be able to dictate the research or own the discoveries?During the past two decades, commercial forces have quietly transformed virtually every aspect of academic life. Corporate funding of universities is growing and the money comes with strings attached. In return for this funding, universities and professors are acting more and more like for-profit patent factories: university funds are shifting from the humanities and the less profitable science departments into research labs, and the skill of teaching is valued less and less. Slowly but surely, universities are abandoning their traditional role as disinterested sources of e Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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