"This work performs a signal public service. Soley has shown
beyond a doubt that not only is the conservative claim that the uni-
versities are a hotbed of radical faculty a fantasy, but that this
charge conceals an alarming and perilous truth. Higher education,
Soley demonstrates, has been transformed into a corporate realm
and a new profit center for Big Business."

— Herbert I. Schiller, author of Culture, Inc.

"Read it and resist. Soley sounds the alarm: It's time to take
back our universities from those who exploit them for personal and
corporate gain. Leasing the Ivory Tower is necessary ammunition
for campus and community activists organizing to make education
meet the needs of the public, not the profit seekers."

— Robin Templeton, UNPLUG

"This extensively researched and footnoted work confirms
what most student activists already know from daily experience:
that the Academy increasingly functions as little more than a pub-
licly subsidized research and develoment arm for the Fortune 500.

"Media frothing about 'political correctness' aside, Leasing the
Ivory Tower demonstrates conclusively that the truly pervasive in-
fluence in American intellectual culture is not 'P.C.' but 'B.C.'—Big
Corporations."

— Robert McClure, National Progressive Student Network

" Leasing the Ivory Tower deals with the 'political correctness' the
corporate community has quietly imposed on academia, which is
vastly more important in compromising academic integrity than any
challenges from below (which command so much mainstream atten-
tion and indignation). Enlightening and well-researched, Leasing the
Ivory Tower deserves wide attention and should open a much needed
debate about the real threats to academic freedom."

— Edward S. Herman, author of Beyond Hypocrisy