Buying in or Selling Out?: The Commercialization of the American Research University

by Donald G. Stein

Book Overview

Universities were once ivory towers where scholarship and teaching reigned supreme, or so we tell ourselves. Whether they were ever as pure as we think, it is certainly the case that they are pure no longer. Administrators look to patents as they seek money by commercializing faculty discoveries; they pour money into sports with the expectation that these spectacles will somehow bring in revenue; they sign contracts with soda and fast-food companies,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813533740
• ISBN13: 9780813533742
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"