Yeah, I was a professor in a private college and you can guess what
their policy was. No, it's not education. Bottom line, that's what they
were interested in. Staff meetings did not involve some lofty ideas of
excellence in teaching, it was all balance sheets and threats of getting
canned if the profits weren't up. The people in charge of the school
had a low
regard for academic pursuits. Not one of the people in charge were academic.
I've worked for government and for industry and the I've found the government
to be more trustworthy in all cases. There is no
money motive for misdeeds, because
there is no
money.
Academic people get chewed up and spit out in the backstabbing world
of private industry. If a company was in charge of
antiquities the academics would be
parking cars for the execs.
Some things can be better handled by profit motive, such as the phone system.
That only applies when there is competition. When something is important and
for the public
good, it is a bad idea to mix profit motive and public
good. The
moneyalways wins and the people are seen as pigeons.
Private individuals created this
antiquities mess. It has been dumped on the
doorstep of the governemtns. The governments can't get the tax
money to
care for the mess,
so bury it again.