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FUTURESAVER OF THE WEEK ENDING 4-16-2005

Jennifer Washburn has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, The Nation, Newsday, The Washington Times, Mother Jones and the Journal of Commerce. Her new book is University, Inc.:The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education. She was a senior research associate at the Arms Trade Resource Center of the World Policy Institute at the New School for Social Research and a fellow at Open Society Institute. She is now a fellow at the New American Foundation. University, Inc.: details the ways that CEOs have reengineered American universities to become primarily the help mates of big businesses in their quest for short-term profits and pliable employees who will bend and break the law whenever requested to do so without regard for the welfare of low-paid workers and of a decimated environment. This warps educational goals and locks new knowledge out of the public domain and into the hands of often unlawful CEOs. Open-ended academic research is often throttled and degraded by these practices which also encourage the marketing of life-threatening prescription drugs. For blowing the whistle on privatization gone mad, Jennifer Washburn has been named Futuresaver of the Week. Click the links below for more information.

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Jennifer (New America Foundation)
Jennifer (American Prospect)
Jennifer (Atlantic Monthly)
Jennifer (Mother Jones)