Academic / Corporate Collaborations

Programs and Initiatives
Corporate Support of Higher Ed
Discussion and Critique of Collaborations

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Programs and Initiatives

• Business-Higher Education Forum ("membership organization of academic and corporate chief executives that bridges the gap between the corporation and the campus while preserving the unique, traditional role of each. . . . provides an opportunity to understand the goals and values unique to each sector") (American Council on Education)
  1. Selected Resources:
  2. Major Initiatives
  3. Publications (annotated bibliography)
• Cal State "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")
• Georgetown U. Program in Communication, Culture, and Technology (M.A.)
• IBM- Total Quality Program -- Nationwide
• Michigan Virtual Automotive College ("brings courses and training programs to those who work in the automotive industry")
• UAW-Ford University: Education for the 21st Century ("vital learning environment for UAW-Ford employees that will enhance their educations and give Ford the competitive edge it needs in a tough industry")
• U. California Industry-University Cooperative Research Program: New Knowledge, Innovation, New Businesses, Jobs
  1. Biotechnology
  2. Digital Media
  3. Semiconductor Manufacturing

Corporate Support of Higher Ed

• Roger D. Lathan, ed., Corporate Support for Colleges and Universities (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1983)
• G. Jeremiah Ryan, Corporation and Foundation Giving to Community, Technical, and Junior Colleges (American Assoc. of Community Colleges, 1990)

Discussion and Critique of Collaborations

• The Cal State Controversy
  • Selected Resources (for fuller bibliography, see Featured Controversy)
    1. "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)
    2. FAQ for the TII (highlights of the plan in question-and-answer format) (CSU)
    3. C/Net, "Colleges to Give Windows Top Billing" (Nov. 24, 1997)
    4. 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")
    5. 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)
• C/Net, "UC Berkeley a High-Tech Player" (April 24, 1998)
• Chronicle of Higher Education
  1. "Visionary or 'Operator'? Jorge Klor de Alva and His Unusual Intellectual Journey," July 3, 1998: A8 ("Now he has left behind clever essays on the narrative strategies of colonizers and colonized in 16th-century Mexico, to take the helm of an institution once tagged 'McUniversity,' where the only research is on strategies to conquer market niches and on more-efficient ways to deliver practical courses to working adults.") (online version for subscribers only)
  2. " 'Corporate Universities' Said to Force Business Schools to Change Their Ways," (June 18, 1998) ("The dramatic growth in the number of 'corporate universities' is forcing many business schools to change the way they operate. . . . The demand for customized programs tailored to the needs of individual companies is pushing more business schools into uneasy alliances with company-sponsored 'universities.' ") (online version for subscribers only)
• Bob Davis and David Wessel, Prosperity: The Coming Twenty-Year Boom and What It Means to You (Time Business, 1998) (predicts the prosperity of the American middle class due to technology, globalization, and education; includes discussion of the pivotal role of community colleges in the future)
• Dorothy C. Fenwick
  1. ed., Directory of Campus-Business Linkages: Education and Business Prospering Together (New York: Amer. Council on Education / Macmillan, 1983)
  2. Guide to Campus-Business Linkage Programs: Education and Business Prospering Together, 2nd ed. (New York: Amer. Council on Education / Macmillan, 1986)
• Gerald R. Gold
  1. ed., Business and Higher Education: Toward New Alliances (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1981)
  2. and Steven M. Jung and David S. Bushnell, Industry-Education-Labor Collaboration: Policies and Practices in Perspective (Washington, D.C.: Center for Education and Work / National Institute for Work and Learning, prepared for U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, 1982)
• Lynn G. Johnson, The High-Technology Connection: Academic/Industrial Cooperation for Economic Growth, ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Research Report (Washington, D.C.: Assoc. for the Study of Higher Education, 1984)
• Lynn Olson, The School and Work Revolution: How Employers and Educators are Joining Forces to Prepare Tomorrow's Skilled Workers (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997)
• David R. Powers, et al., Higher Education in Partnership with Industry: Opportunities and Strategies for Training, Research, and Economic Development (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988)
• Karen Southwick (Upside), "Priming the Pump: Public/Private Technology Partnerships" (1997) (Educom Review)
• Rikard Stankiewicz, Academic Entrepreneurs: Developing University-Industry Relations (London: Pinter, 1986)