Tuesday, October 5, 2010

The Business Behind Academic Research

Academia is in business.  The public has been sold out.

Below are two well-written articles describing how academia has left its mission toward the public's good, and instead has developed into academic-industrial complex. 



Doctor Who? By Neil Munro

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0211.munro.html

The Kept University
by Eyal Press and Jennifer Washburn
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/03/press.htm

http://www.mindfully.org/GE/The-Kept-UniversityMar00.htm

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