France’s Professors Vow to Continue Fight Against Reform Efforts

by E Wayne Ross on July 28, 2009

The Chronicle: France’s Professors Vow to Continue Fight Against Reform Efforts

Spray-painted banners fluttering in the windows of a central Paris building proclaim that “universities are not an enterprise” and “knowledge is not merchandise.”

A shadowy figure on a Metro platform darts forward to affix rainbow-tinted stickers to a departing train, protesting against government higher-education reforms and warning that they will cost institutions their independence.