Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education (The William G. Bowen Mem

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In Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education , Harvard law professor and former Harvard president Derek Bok argues that worrying about whether the university is becoming a corporate enclave is a waste of time. Of course it has, he acknowledges. The commercialization of higher education is not a.

According to Bok, higher education has long been commercialized. The first for-profit college athletics programs were launched more than a century ago. Concerns about the ethics of private research funding and patenting are more than half a century old. College athletics and corporate-sponsored scientific research are the main areas of commercialization, but Bok notes that colleges and universities have also put a great deal of time, energy, and money into developing for-profit extension programs, distance learning initiatives, and executive MBA programs.

The question, as Bok sees it, is not whether universities are becoming commercialized, or even whether such commercialization is harmful, but how universities can find ethical ways to manage their perennial need to increase revenue.

The dangers are clear enough: But so are the advantages. The more money an institution brings in, the more books it can buy, the more facilities it can build, the more faculty it can support, the more research it can fund, the more scholarships it can award, and so on. Higher education not only stands to benefit from corporate investment, but also has much to learn from business culture — about maximizing efficiency and allocating profits, about creating incentives to improve teaching and about adapting to change. But at the same time, universities must never be — or even seem to be — for sale.

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