Campus, Inc. : corporate power in the ivory tower / edited by Geoffry D. White with Flannery C. Hauck.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2000.
Description
470 p. ; 24 cm.

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Summary note
The university, as a core institution of democratic society, is increasingly threatened by the intrusion of big business. Campus, Inc. not only describes the threat of corporatization, but provides real-life strategies, campaigns, and solutions to the problem. A new era of student activism has rolled 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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Introduction : the struggle that matters the most / Ronnie Dugger
  • The tricks of academe / Lawrence Soley
  • The goods at their worst : campus procurement in the global pillage / Kevin Kniffin
  • Money changers in the temple / David F. Noble
  • Succeed with caution : rethinking academic culture at RPI, PSU, and CSU / Donald W. Bray and Marjorie Woodford Bray
  • Resisting corporatization of the university / Richard Daniels, with Lisa Blasch and Peter Caster
  • The myth of the liberal campus / Michael Parenti
  • Dead souls : the aftermath of Bayh-Dole / Leonard Minsky
  • Tough customers : business' plan to corner the student market / Sonya Huber
  • Faculty workers : tenure on the corporate assembly line / Sonya Huber
  • Professors going pro : the commercialization of teaching, research, and service / Sheila Slaughter and Larry Leslie
  • Give me an $ : moonlighting in the company boardroom / Kevin Kniffin
  • How free is higher education? / Howard Zinn
  • Spook school : the CIA at RIT / Ali S. Zaidi
  • Penn and Inc.: incorporating the University of Pennsylvania / Matthew Ruben
  • Wiring the world : Ameritech's monopoly on the virtual classroom / Todd A. Price
  • Toil and trouble : student activism in the fight against sweatshops / Medea Benjamin
  • Screw-U: the anti-CETI movement at San Francisco State University / Bert Levy, Adam Martin, and Joshua Wolfson
  • Learning to think like a Harvard economist / Stephanie Greenwood
  • Conquering Goliath : the Free Burma Coalition takes down Pepsico / Zar Ni and Michael Apple
  • Social choice for social change : campaign for a new TIAA-CREF / Neil Wollman and Abigail Fuller
  • Take back the university : only unions can save academic life / Henry Steck and Michael Zweig
  • Perils of the knowledge industry : how a faculty union blocked an unfriendly takeover / Jeff Lustig
  • Justice for janitors : organizing against outsourcing at Southampton College / Corey Dolgon
  • Student union : labor, community, and campus unite to fight defunding / Thomas Reifer
  • Greed in the groves / Ralph Nader
  • In the hands of youth : the coming struggle for campus democracy / Ben Manski
  • Do your homework : research and organizing advice for corporate combatants / Sonya Huber
  • Keep your room clean : how to uncover corporate and military influence on your campus / John Peck
  • Pocket change or social change? : university investment responsibility and activism / Seth Newton
  • Take the pledge : a promise of social and environmental responsibility / Neil J. Wollman
  • Afterword. Business school : an interview with Noam Chomsky / Geoffry D. White.
ISBN
1573928100 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^99045208^
OCLC
43118204
RCP
H - S
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