Jennifer Washburn is a New York based journalist and a fellow at the new America Foundation. Her first book, University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education, paints an alarming picture of how academic integrity is being compromised by a market ideology that is fundamentally at odds with the university’s core academic values. Universities are acting like for-profit patent factories, converting professors into “content providers” and students into “consumers.” Scientists neglect the long-term interests of their field, sacrificing public welfare for short-term personal gain. University, Inc. offers an important analysis of the deteriorating state of our higher education system, and a means to a resolution.