UD‘s colleagues Anthony Yezer and Robert Van Order appear to be small players in the very large, competitive game of corporate funded and controlled research results (even corporate controlled faculty) in the contemporary American and European university.

**********************************************

Lately, some of the bigger players seem to be jostling each other out of the way for the right to pleasure the financial sector. BABY, TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT ME TO SAY AND HOW TO SAY IT. WRITE IT YOURSELF IF YOU WANT AND I’LL SIGN IT. LIE BACK AND NIBBLE MY INTELLECTUAL NEUTRALITY.

Harvard’s bipolar babe, Joseph Biederman, pitched his research center to Johnson and Johnson by writing to them that it would “move forward the commercial goals of J.& J.”

Most of these chicks deny. Biederman burbles happily away and Harvard can’t get enough of it…

Sure, when he gets really out there they sanction him … But he’s still a big girl on campus… And always will be!

So here you’ve got this latest article in the New York Times about how a German bank gave a couple of universities there a lot of money and

the bank was allowed a say in the hiring of … two professors. It was also given the right to have bank employees designated as adjunct professors, allowed to grade student work. Appropriate topics for research and research strategy would be decided by a steering committee made up of two academics and two bank employees, with the managing director, a bank employee, casting the deciding vote in the event of a tie.

Deutsche Bank was given the right to review any research produced by members of the Quantitative Products Laboratory 60 days before it was published and could withhold permission for publication for as long as two years. The agreement even specified that the laboratory would be located “in close proximity to the Deutsche Bank” headquarters in Berlin.

Finally, the whole agreement was to be secret…

At last my heart’s an open door; and my secret love’s no secret anymore!