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Universities at Risk: How Politics, Special Interests and Corporatization Threaten Academic Integrity

The distinguished contributors to this book examine the subject of corporate sponsorship, exploring the influences of powerful industries such as tobacco and pharmaceutical companies. They discuss the struggle for credibility and threats to free inquiry when special interest groups, right-wing think tanks, and discredited popular movements (such as intelligent design) infiltrate academia. Chapters on the middle eastern studies and First Nations universities look at external politics that inhibit intellectual freedom. The more insidious trends toward corporatization and “managerializing” the university also come under scrutiny.

This timely book concludes with a discussion about why preserving academic integrity — despite the clamorous voices of the forces threatening it — is so vital to public interest.

Contributors include:

Brian Alters                        Brenda Gallie                     Kevin Mattson
Gary Bauslaugh                   Donald Gutstein                 Arthur Schafer
Mary Burgan                       Marcus Harvey                  Blair Stonechild
Joanna Cohen                     David Healy                      Jon Thompson
Rosemary Deem                   Michael Higgins                 Pat Walden
Shadia Drury                       Sheldon Krimsky

Edited by: James L. Turk

Published November 2008

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