Professors union declaration: State university system caters to corporations

by E Wayne Ross on December 7, 2009

Contra Costa Times: Professors union declaration: State university system caters to corporations

SACRAMENTO — Leaders of a statewide professors union issued a statement of position, or white paper, Tuesday claiming the California State University is abandoning its mission of providing a good liberal-arts education to qualified students seeking one.

Instead, they said, CSU administrators seem to be re-making the university as a profit-seeking institution that stresses preparing students not primarily for good citizenship, but mainly to meet the needs of corporation