There's been a lot of discussion on Jeremy's site on the question of a proposed new institute, to potentially be sited at South Campus, that would focus on technology commercialization and whose "professors" would not hold tenure. This is another example of the creeping corporatism that continues to invade academia.
As usual, our neighbours to the south are ahead of us. A particularly egregious example is this apparently successful effort by a foundation controlled by one of the Koch brothers to completely control the hiring of a position they have funded. Are similar things in store for the U of A? Are they already underway, and we just don't know about them?
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