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The control of higher education in America, both public and private , has been placed in the hands of a small group of the population, namely, financiers and businessmen. From two-thirds to three-fourths of the persons on these boards in recent decades have been selected from this group . It is fair to include the lawyers among this group , " he states, "because the biographical material examined indicates that, especially in recent years, a majority of these lawyers have been associated with large corporations; indeed, in many instances they have been presidents or directors of such organizations.
6 of the trustees could be consid ered "educators" in any legitimate sense of the word. the boards of private universities. Farmers and representatives of agricultural interests were allocated only 1 percent of the seats on governing boards. " In other words, the white- and blue-collar working class was totally unrepresented on the governing boards of the univer sities; and students, the basic constituency of the university system, were equally powerless. Beck concludes his presentation by underscoring some of his major theses, pointing out that "In all probability, these facts greatly understate the dominance of business leaders on these boards, for at least 47 percent of the trustees classed as professional persons were also officers or directors of busi ness enterprises .
James Ridgeway, The Closed Corporation (New York: Random House, 1968), p. 139. 20. H. P. Beck, Men Who Control Our Universities (New York: King's Crown Press, 1947), p. 145. 2 The Ruling Class Americans do not trust their money to a lot of professors and principals. . Americans put their money under the control of business men at the head of the Universities. " 1 Andrew Carnegie The Regents of the University of California, with their vast economic power, their significant political influence, and their social prominence, are not atypical of the trustees of most major colleges.