ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses accreditation organizations, association memberships, lobbying firms, government-industry-university compacts, and collective bargaining agreements with faculty and staff as part of the many political arrangements of the modern university. The economics and politics of higher learning have become exceedingly complex as the economic and political relationships of the modern college and university have multiplied, interwoven, and extended into society more broadly. The choice for university administrators is not enviable but is likely to continue to be made in support of the trend toward service to the state unless an alternative justification for its locus at universities can be advanced. While professor West's treatment focuses principally on the relationship between government and university in education broadly writ, Dresch follows with an examination of another important interaction, research. An important observation is made by Dresch concerning the nonlinear nature of the transformation of fundamental research into societal benefits.
