The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Goldie Blumenstyk
September 4, 2018
Do corporate-style NDAs have a place in higher ed?
The broad nondisclosure agreement Purdue University Global requires its faculty members to sign has been nagging at me since I first reported on it a couple weeks ago. The more I’ve talked to people about it, the more it seems at odds with the values of higher education and the traditional role of faculty members — even recognizing how businesslike the enterprise has become.
Even if the policy is an anomaly — and despite assertions from Purdue Global, it looks like it is — I wonder whether it’s yet another harbinger of the rising corporatization of the sector.
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