An investigative study of American higher education that argues colleges and universities have been shaped by corporate donors, trustees, and financial patronage. Through case studies and chapter-length portraits of institutions, administrators, foundations, and industrial trusts, it traces how money and administrative alliances influence hiring, curricula, research agendas, and campus speech. The work documents the narrowing of independent scholarship, the suppression of dissenting voices, and the growth of vocational and managerial training, and it outlines the social and civic consequences when educational aims are subordinated to profit, prestige, or political influence.