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Saturday, May 17, 2003
Academia for Sale (Standards Included)- ANTHONY W. MARX
What might Harvard do for money if necessary? Put Nike logos on sports uniforms or the gym? Hold back a scientific discovery until it could be patented or produced? Offer credentials over the Internet? Derek Bok, the former longtime president of Harvard, begins his new book, "Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education," with this nightmare of university avarice and moral decay. Some of the moneymaking schemes are imaginary, but, as Mr. Bok warns, the dangers inherent in the insatiable demands for revenue are not.
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