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Selling Out: A Textbook Example
Relegating academic ethics to the backburner, professors are receiving kickbacks from publishers in return for requiring students to purchase the latter's textbooks. Running on a tip from an executive at a textbook company, the article investigates the world of under-the-table payoffs in textbook sales in higher education. The story also cites concrete examples of cases, for example, when a certain publishing company paid professors a hefty $4,000 in turn for requiring his/her students to buy those books.
Tags: James Williams; Middle Tennessee State University; Amy Staples; North West Publishing; Francine M. Butler; Gerhard Gyrtz; Anna Bates; Aquina College; W.W.Norton; Daniel Bartell; Henry Rosovsky; Winthrop Jordan; Steve Tressler; Pearson Longmann
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Wreck the Halls
Because of rising enrollment, construction began on two new dorms on the Middle Tennessee State University campus in 1972. At the time MTSU administrators decided to cut the necessary ventilation system from the dorms, saving the university $26,000 at the time. Two years later after the dorms were completed the director of housing and residential life began getting complaints about moisture problems in the dorms, causing books, clothes, and furniture to mildew. Over the next 27 years the problem worsened, with asbestos being discovered in the dorms, and concrete chunks falling from the ceilings. In 1999 MTSU finally evacuated the dorms, but is unable to renovate or destroy the dorms, while housing students continue to pay for the construction cost from 1972.