ABSTRACT
The "culture of compensation", as Louis Freedberg calls it, was bigger than he was and bigger than University of California: It was the fox culture of higher education, which reflected the fox culture of the country. The media storm of 2005 took place when the United States was in the midst of a period of extreme fox fatigue. With a disappointed and dispirited public tired of the wars, the dislocations caused by the global economy, including the increasing gap between rich and poor and the lack of basic social services, could not change. Higher education has always been connected to the economy. As can be seen, the changes that Clark Kerr noted in The Uses of the University have become more pronounced and more pervasive in recent times, as ties between the university and the economy have continued to intensify.
