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The divestment problem

University Business

” Consequently, many prominent higher education presidents are returning to staunchly defending institutional neutrality. General Electric provides engines for fighter planes and helicopters, Rolls-Royce provides components for F-35 aircraft, and the Toyota Corporation creates military vehicles used by Israel.

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Venezuelan Higher Education

HESA

Institutionally, there has been furious controversy as the government has tried to reduce institutional autonomy and control institutions directly through political means. Universities – and their students – have as a result become one of the government’s biggest institutional barriers to one-party absolutism.