Corporate U
Thursday, April 24 2008
by Frank Stasio and Olympia Stone
The relationship between business and academia has always been uneasy. Corporate funding accounts for a small percentage of all university research funds—seven percent of the total--but that percentage has grown more rapidly than any other in the past decade. So, is the privatization of public universities at our doorstep? Kurt Smith, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, and WUNC Education Reporter Dave DeWitt join host Frank Stasio to talk about the corporatization of higher education.
