The Power to corrupt Scholarship and propagate Inequity Corporatization of the Academy
The opportunity and power of the academic industrial complex to influence scholarship is great. This essay primarily uses the Johns Hopkins Industrial Complex in the U.S., a prestigious and world renown teaching, research, and health institution, as a case study to highlight the influence of public:private partnerships in growing power and corporatization of the academy with resulting corruption of scholarship and propagation of inequity.
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Corporatization used here indicates the transformation of academic settings into corporate agencies and institutions governed not only by business-like principles but influenced by profit-making agendas. The ability of such corporations and wealthy donors to monopolize the principles and practices of the academy is discussed. The essay closes with a discussion of why organizing and educating of the larger university/academy specifically and local communities generally will assure that educational settings are opportunities for open scholarship enabling social equity and collective justice.
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