Final Exam readings

The three articles that would be beneficial for you to read again for the final are the following:

Think Again: Civil Society

Tocqueville's missionaries: Civil Society Advocacy...

Unsustainability as a Frame of mind... (The Trumpeter 2002)

They all follow each other and are located in the middle of the reading packet.
These readings will be helpful in answering some of the multiple choice and short answer questions. See you on Tuesday at 4:00pm.

Commercial Enterprise or Public Service?

Continuing our discussions in class about the Bolonia process and the public / private dynamic of higher education, I wanted to post a question for discussion here on the blog. For all of you coming from the US university system, the private sectors presence in institutions of higher education is old news.
In Europe and in particular Spain this in some ways is one of the issues involved with the Bolonia process. Public institutions in Spain since the transition, have provided a service that is free from the profit motive. Universities at times would even run at a loss because they were providing an important service to society. I leave you with this question to debate:

To what extent should a university behave like a commercial enterprise and to what extent should it behave like a public service?