Arbiter Online - Universities turning tricks for corporations: "The relationship between corporations and universities is becoming more common, and subsequent to this, more unequal, as discussion about the impacts of this relationship is drowned out.
In an excerpt from �Leasing the Ivory Tower� by Lawrence C. Soley, Soley writes, �The story about universities in the 1980s and 1990s is that they will turn a trick for anybody with money to invest; and the only ones with money are corporations, millionaires, and foundations. These investments in universities have dramatically changed the mission of higher education; they have led universities to attend to the interests of their well-heeled patrons, rather than those of students.�
Where university donors used to be philanthropic individuals with the altruistic intention of simply giving back to their educational roots or investing in the general well-being higher education, today the process has become frighteningly quid pro quo."
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