Misguided call to privatize universities
For a chilling look at what the University of California would look like if it were run by unprincipled economic ethos, look no further than “Public No More.” The title of this new book from business school deans Gary Fethke of the University of Iowa and Andrew Policano of UC Irvine provides an apt summary of the book’s libertarian call to privatize most of what public universities do. That is, it is a call to run these universities much like corporations, and to do so for private benefit rather than the public good.
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by Peter Navarro, The San Francisco Chronicle.