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The USSC rapidly worked its way into Australia’s oldest university, building a unique governance structure in which a private business lobby vets senior academics and controls the Centre’s finances. Despite a secret management agreement, the aims, control mechanisms and some of the outcomes of this project are fairly plain. The Centre has undermined academic independence, dressed up the business lobby’s agenda as ‘normal’ academic activity, and has raised broader questions about the capacity of the corporate university to manage conflicts of interest.  \nAcademic independence is uncertain in the age of the corporate university. A central ethical problem is that, as with neoliberalism in general, the corporate institution sees no real conflict of interest between private interest and public purpose. These conflicts, unseen or disregarded, can work their way into institutional  \nstructures and become thoroughly ‘normalised’.  \nSuch is the case with the United States Studies Centre (USSC), established at the University of Sydney in 2007. Created with the specific purpose of countering Australian fear and criticism of the United States of America following the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq,Australia’s oldest university rapidly compromised its normal governance structures. It allowed a private business lobby group, the American Australian Association (AAA), to exercise unique control over the Centre’s finances and academic appointments. University managers have kept secret the detail of the AAA’s management powers under ‘commercial in confidence’claims. The effect of this has been to contribute to a mostly servile and uncritical discussion of the world’s  \ndeclining superpower, at a time of war and economic crisis. This constitutes a powerful blow against academic independence, when corporate persuaders are highly active. In the US itself, there have been moves to‘protect students from liberal political bias in the classroom’ and to restrict academic research that might threaten the vision of a ‘New American Century’(Allen, Deeb & Winegar 2005) .  \nUniversity of Sydney managers argue that the Centre’s association with reputable academics, and backing for the Centre from the University’s Senate and its executive managers, maintains sufficient safeguards to protect academic independence and guard against possible conflicts of interest (Spence 2009) . This ignores deeper structural problems. Various types of sponsorship have become embedded in the Australian university system in recent decades, though less strongly in the social sciences. In context of the social sciences in times of war, writers have noted earlier threats to, but the vital role of, academic independence (Williams 2006: 15-17) .The neoliberal context and the  \nvol. 52, no. 2, 2010 Hegemony, big money and academic independence, Tim Anderson 11  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \npeculiar corporate nature of Australian ‘enterprise universities’has been addressed (Marginson & Considine 2000), and it has been observed that neoliberalism embedded in such institutions‘channels and limits academic freedoms’(Marginson 2006) . Research income is already far more highly valued in Australian government support schemes than actual published research, making income an end in itself, while the elevation of sponsorships and consultancies tend to ‘favour predetermined outcomes’ in the constitution of knowledge (Thornton 2008: 5-6) . The changes brought by the US Studies Centre are in many ways continuations of these broader forces; yet through its secret, devolved management provisions and direct subordination to a corporate lobby t","cbCailt3m2lOskDH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailt3m2lOskDH","pdf",158166,"English","# Introduction\n## Academic independence in the corporate university\n# The USSC and governance mechanisms\n## Sponsorship, secrecy, and conflicts of interest\n# Founding aims and creation of a partisan body\n## Rupert Murdoch, the AAA, and government funding","[{\"question\":\"What threat does the article claim the USSC poses to academic independence?\",\"answer\":\"It claims the USSC undermines academic independence by letting a private business lobby vet senior academics and control finances, embedding conflicts of interest into governance.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the article describe academic independence as becoming “normalised” in corporate universities?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that conflicts of interest between private interests and public academic purposes are overlooked or disregarded, allowing them to become thoroughly institutional and accepted.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the USSC created and funded according to the article?\",\"answer\":\"It was established in 2007 with the stated purpose of countering Australian criticism of the United States after Afghanistan and Iraq, with Australian public money committed and the AAA acting as trustee.\"}]","A U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W - Hegemony, big money and academic independence - Tim Anderson | PDF",18]