I tried to send these notes to Doug Henwood, but it bounced back. I thought that some of you might be interested in this as well. Schiller, Herbert I. 1995. Information Inequality: The Deepening Social Crisis in America (NY: Routledge). 47: According to the University of Miami's vice president for research, "As money becomes less and less available. more people are going to be compromising their principles, compromising their time .... We can get to the point at some stage in this process where we're not research universities any longer but fee-for-service corporations -- hired guns. De Palma, Anthony. 1991. "Universities' Reliance on Companies Raises Vexing Questions in Research." New York Times (17 March). 47: Derek Bok's final "President's Report" to Harvard's Board of Overseers, found "the commercialization of universities as (perhaps) the most severe threat facing higher education." "[Universities] appear less and less as a charitable institution seeking truth and serving students and more and more, as a huge commercial operation that differs from corporations only because there are no shareholders and no dividends." McMillen, Liz. 1991. "Quest for Profits May Damage Basic Values of Universities, Harvard's Bok Warns." Chronicle of Higher Education, Number 32 (24 April): Sec. B, p. 8. 79: Phoenix University in San Francisco has one thousand of its eighteen thousand students earning their degrees via computer. The school "has no fraternities, dormitories, or football team .... [It] doesn't even have a library, just a research desk with a toll-free telephone number. Perhaps more to the point," none of Phoenix's 2,100 instructors are tenured or full-time. They are independent contractors paid about $1,000 to $1,200 per course." Stecklow, Steve. 1994. "At Phoenix University Class Can Be Anywhere -- Even in Cyberspace." Wall Street Journal (12 September): p. 1. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
