About this title: A seasoned journalist exposes the emerging union between the academic and business worlds, and shows how this will affect us all. During the past two decades, commercial forces have quietly transformed virtually every aspect of academic life. Corporate funding of universities is up - and the money comes with strings attached. Jennifer Washburn, a scholar and journalist whose work in this area has already garnered much attention, addresses several distinct - though related - sets of questions and concerns, such as: the development of the "Academic-Industrial Complex"; corporate money in the ...
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Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Book, N. Y.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780465090518ISBN:0465090516
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780465090518ISBN:0465090516
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780465090518ISBN:0465090516
Description: Very Good. Great book! Mild shelf wear on dustjacket, name on endpage, no markings in text. From Publishers Weekly: American universities are the envy of the world, but they may be on the brink of discarding the very values and practices that have made them so successful, argues journalist Washburn, as secretive connections between private industry and the academy have begun to "undermine the foundation of public trust on which all universities depend. " Washburn has a muckraker's keen eye for ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780465090518ISBN:0465090516
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780465090518ISBN:0465090516
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780465090525ISBN:0465090524
Description: New. "University, Inc. " explains how the emerging alliance between the worlds of academia and business puts America's universities at risk, and tells how this union will affect us all. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2005-02-15
ISBN-13:9780465090518ISBN:0465090516
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2005-02-15
ISBN-13:9780465090518ISBN:0465090516
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