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Why would private higher education be controversial in any way, I would imagine the state is great because the only agenda is to satisfy the customers.

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I am just now graduating from PSU and am reminded of how the engineering departments chairperson wanted to setup a satellite campus in vietnam. This was/is a project which was/is heavily funded by Intel so that they could employ local engineers in a yet to be built manufacturing plant in Vietnam. I know it is important for engineering departments to respond to the educational needs their respective future employers of students have. And globalisation is here to stay, I realise this, but I get nerves when our collegiate system collaborates so closely with corporations in projects which, if anything, will hurt the employ-ability and future prospects of new engineers.

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