When Ads Enter the Classroom, It’s a Deal With El Diablo

by E Wayne Ross on December 11, 2008

The Chronicle: When Ads Enter the Classroom, It’s a Deal With El Diablo

First it was the long-distance phone calls. Professors in the history department at the University of Montana at Missoula were told this past spring that the university could no longer foot the bill. Then the annual travel budget was slashed to $350 per person — enough to get as far as Lansing, Mich., but just barely, as the department chairman, Richard Drake, puts it.