UVA Is Sold Out To The Vampire Squid, Just Like Most Major Universities [View all]
It's not as if the universities haven't been networked to corporations, anyway. What's the big deal if they come right out and admit their profit-motivated philosophy? They eliminate their schools of education and teacher training, humanities and arts, let whole schools of business be bought by the 1% WITH stipulations about their curricula. Professors use the revolving door of the Chamber of Commerce to consult for corporations and think tanks and then refuse to disclose how many hundreds of thousands they make from the vampire squid.
Academics should disclose their conflicts of interest whenever they make any public statement about policy issues. AND they should NEVER be paid for testifying as 'expert witness' or in tax cases or appearing in the media. Major American universities are diseased.
Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago described his analysis of the 150 most frequently downloaded economics papers on the subject of executive pay. Papers supporting higher executive pay were 55% more likely to be published in the most prestigious journals.
University economists have simply averted their eyes to the whole crisis of outsourcing, looting and destroying firms, pensions and jobs because they have a conflict of interest. They decline to study any business issues if they threaten the interests of their consulting clients.
Universities have trashed their historical mission to America's youth. So what the hell.
Just be a Fortune 500 university, already. Embrace the vampire squid, already.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/24/uva-teresa-sullivan-ouster-_n_1619261.html
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