"The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom and the End of the American University"

from Truthout. A review of a book authored by Ellen Schrecker, a history professor at New York City's Yeshiva University.

"In reacting to the economic insecurities of the past forty years, the nation's colleges and universities have adopted corporate practices that degrade undergraduate instruction, marginalize faculty members, and threaten the very mission of the academy as an institution devoted to the common good."

In my opinion, one should enter higher education with the knowledge that it has a strong component of pro-capitalist indoctrination built into it. You won't get any kind of accurate picture of labor history and any history that undermines the legitimacy of capitalist interests and rule. Hence, its value lies mostly in teaching technological skills.