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Noam Chomsky
Academic Freedom and the Corporatization of Universities

On April 6th, 2011 the Office of the Dean and Vice-Principal Academic University of Toronto Scarborough presented Noam Chomsky speaking on Academic Freedom and the Corporatization of Universities. To view the lecture, please click on the link above.

Noam Chomsky is one of America's leading scholars and intellectuals. A prolific author, lecturer, and activist, Chomsky is currently an Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 1957 Chomsky's first book Syntactic Structures started revolutions in two distinct academic fields: linguistics and analytic philosophy. In 1969 his book American Power and the New Mandarins, with its striking analysis of US military action in Vietnam, established Chomsky as a compelling foreign policy critic. He has continued to be an essential voice on virtually every international conflict for over 4 decades.

Chomsky has lectured at universities around the world, is the recipient of numerous honourary degrees and awards, and has written or co-authored more than one hundred books. The New York Times calls Chomsky "arguably the most important intellectual alive today," and "perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet."