University Inc.—The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education

Arjun Appadurai serves as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at New School University in New York City, where he also holds a Distinguished Professorship as the John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences. Until recently, he was the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of International Studies, a Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Center on Cities and Globalization at Yale University. Appadurai is a former Individual Project Fellow of the Open Society Institute.

Leon Botstein has been president of Bard College since 1975, where he is also the Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities. Dr. Botstein is past chairman of the Harper's Magazine Foundation and of the New York Council for the Humanities, a member of the National Advisory Committee for the Yale–New Haven Teachers Institute, and a member of the board of the Central European University and many other boards and professional associations. Dr. Botstein has been music director of the American Symphony Orchestra since 1992.

Jennifer Washburn is a freelance journalist and a fellow at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute based in Washington, D.C., whose purpose is to bring promising new voices and ideas to the fore of America’s public discourse. She writes for the Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, The Nation, American Prospect, and other national media. Formerly a fellow at the Open Society Institute and a senior research associate at the World Policy Institute based at the New School University, Washburn lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.