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- The Cal State Controversy
- Update: C/Net,
"College
Tech Deal Folds" (June 29, 1998)
- Selected Resources (for fuller bibliography, see
Featured Controversy)
- "Technology
Infrastructure Initiative Supporting Partnership Plan"
(the Cal State plan to create a limited liability corporation "comprised
of the four corporate partners [GTE, Fujitsu, Hughes, and
Microsoft] and the CSU auxiliary") (CSU)
- FAQ for
the TII (highlights of the plan in question-and-answer
format) (CSU)
- C/Net,
"Colleges
to Give Windows Top Billing" (Nov. 24, 1997)
- Los Angeles Times, "A
Farewell Warning," Jan. 7, 1998: B2 ("As he assumes
his new job . . . former Chancellor Barry Munitz
delivers a stark pronouncement to those who protest Cal State's
creative financial arrangments")
- Los Angeles Times, "Microsoft Dropped from
University Partnership," April 17, 1998: D1, D5 (coverage
of new developments in the controversial Cal State system plan
to partner with major technology firms) | see also C/Net,
"Microsoft
Drops Out of College Deal" (Apr. 16, 1998)
- "Classical
Studies Degree at George Mason University under Threat of Elimination"
(1998) ("As reported in The Washington Post of March 15, the
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at George Mason University has
begun a process of extensive restructuring to bring the college in line
with the university's new emphasis on technology. As a result 19 degree
programs in arts and sciences are being slated for elimination. Among
these are the B.A.s in Classical Studies, German, Russian, and Russian
Studies as well as M.A. degrees in French and German and the Graduate
Certificate in Translation, all offered through the Department of Modern
and Classical Languages.") (The Classics Page at George Mason U.) |
See Washington Post,
"Liberal
Arts at GMU Targeted by Degrees: Proposed Cuts Draw Immediate Protests"
- Clyde W. Barrow, Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate
Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education,
1894-1928 (Madison, Wisconson: U. Wisconsin Press, 1990)
- James Engell and Anthony Dangerfield, "The
Market-Model University: Humanities in the Age of Money" (1998) |
Bibliography
("The starved logic that sees money as the most desirable result of education--that
knowledge is money or should be directly convertible to it--has produced what
we call the Three Criteria[:] . . . A Promise of Money . . .
A Knowledge of Money . . . A Source of Money . . .
Is our disinvestment in the humanities--what we might call the dehumanization
of higher education--a legitimate response to desirable market factors?")
(Harvard Alumni Magazine)
- The Industry Standard: The Newsmagazine of the Internet Economy,
"Higher
Earning: The Fight to Control the Academy's Intellectual Capital"
(June 28, 1998)
- Paul Lauter (Trinity C., Conn.)
- Canons and Contexts (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1991),
esp. pp. 175-97: "Retrenchment--What the Managers are Doing"
- "Unionizing
Against Cutbacks" (1998) (Workplace)
- Los Angeles Times
- "Will Technology Commercialize Higher
Learning?" Jan. 19, 1998: D6 (". . . some
academics are starting to view their institutions as emergent clones
of market-driven high-tech companies instead of as universities and
colleges")
- Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report
on Knowledge, trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi
(Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1984)
- Bill Readings, The University in Ruins (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard Univ. Press, 1996)

- Wesley Shumar, College for Sale: A Critique of the
Commodification of Higher Education (London: Falmer, 1997)
- Langdon Winner (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
"The Handwriting
on the Wall: Resisting Technoglobalism's Assault on Education"
(1997) (major essay on the general problem of the corporatization
of education by a well-known philosopher and historian of technology)