Government has also worked to stymie campus opposition to US policies at home and abroad. In 1940, the Rapp-Coudert Committee was established to investigate subversion among faculty members at both public and private colleges in the New York area. This followed on the heels of a decade of pro-worker and anti-fascist protest at the City College of New York. The upshot of the Committee's work? CCNY fired 60 faculty members, an action that proved to be a powerful deterrent; several decades later, during World War II, 227 campuses allowed army specialized training programs to set up shop. Then, by the time the Cold War started, the state-university compact was so entrenched that it ensured that scientific knowledge would serve US global interests. Add in McCarthyism, and most academics quickly hunkered down and towed the line.
By 1960, Chatterjee and Maira write, the political science department at MIT was fully funded by the CIA - and MIT was not an anomaly. "The CIA supported social science research throughout the 1950s and 1960s to perfect psychological torture techniques that were outsourced to Vietnam, Argentina and other countries," they write. full: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/22589-academia-under-the-influence _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
