NEW YORK -- Did you know that Stanford University has a Yahoo! Chair of Information Management Systems?
I didn't, until I read Henry Giroux's article in Harvard Educational Review (Winter 2002): "Neoliberalism, Corporate Culture, and the Promise of Higher Education: The University as a Democratic Public Sphere." It is a stinging attack on what Giroux, professor of education at Pennsylvania State University, calls "the corporatizing of higher education."
"Neoliberalism has become," Giroux asserts, "the most dangerous ideology of the current historical moment." What is "neoliberalism"? It refers, according to Robert McChesney, professor of communications at the University of Illinois, "to the policies and processes whereby a relative handful of private interests are permitted to control as much as possible of social life in order to maximize their personal profit."