Corporate Takeover of Universities?

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Well not really but thanks for coming.

Corporations Join Up With Colleges to Design Curricula - WSJ.com

The University of Maryland has had to tighten its belt, cutting seven varsity sports teams and forcing faculty and staff to take furlough days. But in a corner of the campus, construction workers are building a dormitory specifically designed for a new academic program.

Many of the students who live there will be enrolled in a cybersecurity concentration funded in part by Northrop Grumman Corp. NOC -1.15% The defense contractor is helping to design the curriculum, providing the computers and paying part of the cost of the new dorm.

Such partnerships are springing up from the dust of the recession, as state universities seek new revenue and companies try to close a yawning skills gap in fast-changing industries.

Last year, International Business Machines Corp. IBM -0.34% deepened a partnership with Ohio State University to train students in big-data analytics. Murray State University in Kentucky recently retooled part of its engineering program, with financial support and guidance from local companies. And the State University of New York College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany and other locations is expanding its footprint after attracting billions of dollars of private-sector investments.

Though these partnerships have been around at the graduate level and among the nation's polytechnic schools and community colleges, they are now migrating into traditional undergraduate programs.

The emerging model is a "new form of the university," said Wallace Loh, president of the University of Maryland. "What we are seeing is a federal-grant university that is increasingly corporate and increasingly reliant on private philanthropy."

States on average cut per-pupil funding for university systems by 28% between 2008 and 2013, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a left-leaning think tank. Those cuts have forced tuition up and helped inflate student loan debt to $1.2 trillion. Now they are prompting schools to seek new revenue streams.

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Whats your thoughts on this? Corporations can now donate enough to open their own wing like Northrup Gruman and instead of hiring people they can now grow them. Kidding

 

[Moonglow]

If you have one Pepsi and then you have another one, how much more refreshed will you be??


Future question on math entrance exam...

 

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If you have one Pepsi and then you have another one, how much more refreshed will you be??


Future question on math entrance exam...

And you kinda nailed it in the first response. What other corporations will be opening branches in our Universities to mold talent? Will the cost be reduced or remain the same? When will this become higher education to make widgets?

 

[Moonglow]

It's just an expensive pre-training for corporate drones and tools..ty

 

[RandomVariable]

If it funds the art and English departments I'm all for it.

 

[martybegan]

Well not really but thanks for coming.

Corporations Join Up With Colleges to Design Curricula - WSJ.com

The University of Maryland has had to tighten its belt, cutting seven varsity sports teams and forcing faculty and staff to take furlough days. But in a corner of the campus, construction workers are building a dormitory specifically designed for a new academic program.

Many of the students who live there will be enrolled in a cybersecurity concentration funded in part by Northrop Grumman Corp. NOC -1.15% The defense contractor is helping to design the curriculum, providing the computers and paying part of the cost of the new dorm.

Such partnerships are springing up from the dust of the recession, as state universities seek new revenue and companies try to close a yawning skills gap in fast-changing industries.

Last year, International Business Machines Corp. IBM -0.34% deepened a partnership with Ohio State University to train students in big-data analytics. Murray State University in Kentucky recently retooled part of its engineering program, with financial support and guidance from local companies. And the State University of New York College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany and other locations is expanding its footprint after attracting billions of dollars of private-sector investments.

Though these partnerships have been around at the graduate level and among the nation's polytechnic schools and community colleges, they are now migrating into traditional undergraduate programs.

The emerging model is a "new form of the university," said Wallace Loh, president of the University of Maryland. "What we are seeing is a federal-grant university that is increasingly corporate and increasingly reliant on private philanthropy."

States on average cut per-pupil funding for university systems by 28% between 2008 and 2013, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a left-leaning think tank. Those cuts have forced tuition up and helped inflate student loan debt to $1.2 trillion. Now they are prompting schools to seek new revenue streams.

You can read the rest at the link.

Whats your thoughts on this? Corporations can now donate enough to open their own wing like Northrup Gruman and instead of hiring people they can now grow them. Kidding

I mean, JESUS!!! God forbid that our higher educational institutions get input from the very people who will be hiring their graduates!! What we need is Universities that only turn out womyn studies and basketweaving grads, and to hell with what the companies who need workers want!!!

 

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Thanks Marty for adding nothing as usual

 

[martybegan]

Thanks Marty for adding nothing as usual

Just can't deal with the sarcasm, eh dippy?

 

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Thanks Marty for adding nothing as usual

Just can't deal with the sarcasm, eh dippy?

Yes, but also sarcasm isnt a point. Like I said.

Thanks for adding more nothing

 

[martybegan]

Thanks Marty for adding nothing as usual

Just can't deal with the sarcasm, eh dippy?

Yes, but also sarcasm isnt a point. Like I said.

Thanks for adding more nothing

Sigh, my point is universities should listen and cooperate with companies, considering most of the people leaving them will not enter academia, but the workforce.

But keep up with the view that academics are the only concern with universities. That degree in 19th century weasel art will get you FAR.

 

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I went to a community college where there was a computer science program which had a concentration, of sorts, for AS400, a legacy computer system, where the college was the only source of people trained in that particular system. It seemed to work very well for everyone concerned.

 

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Just can't deal with the sarcasm, eh dippy?

Yes, but also sarcasm isnt a point. Like I said.

Thanks for adding more nothing

Sigh, my point is universities should listen and cooperate with companies, considering most of the people leaving them will not enter academia, but the workforce.

But keep up with the view that academics are the only concern with universities. That degree in 19th century weasel art will get you FAR.

I think cooperation is fine its when the school cant survive without their contribution is when its going to get interesting. Not to mention will tuition go up, down, etc?