University, Inc.

Teresa Healy supplied this item

This is a great article reflecting on problems with intellectual property rights and corporate involvement in US campuses. Thanks to Erika Shaker, CCPA, for finding and distributing it.

1. http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12066

University, Inc.
An Interview with author, Jennifer Washburn.

In 1998, the University of California at Berkeley struck a deal with
Novartis, a Swiss agricultural-biotechnology firm (now called Syngenta). The
agreement required Novartis to fund one-third of the research budget of a
department within the university¹s College of Natural Resources.