The Corporate Campus – Commercialization and the Dangers to Canada’s Colleges and University

For fifty years, the quality of education offered by Canadian universities and colleges has steadily improved, and access to these institutions has expanded. Now these gains are in danger. As tuition fees increase, as colleges and universities make new and often secret arrangements with the private sector, and as courses and research go up “for sale,” Canada’s universities and colleges are losing sight of the public interest.

Respected contributors from across the country — including Ursula Franklin, Dr. Noam Chomsky, Obert, David Noble, and Marjorie Griffin Cohen — look at the many issues surrounding the commercialization of colleges and universities. They discuss the redefinition of education as job training, the remodelling of post-secondary institutions along corporate lines, and the new business orientation of research.

The Corporate Campus is an up-to-date discussion of an issue that most Canadians care strongly about.