As student activists, we want to make use of their university ties by building broad campaigns to make corporations accountable for their actions. Lack of accessibility, rising tuition, systemic racism, and cuts to 'unprofitable' departments can all be traced back to corporate leaders in the decision-making positions in universities and governments. It is important for us to keep track of these links and hold these people responsible for the effects of their decisions. Moreover, it is mandatory for non-employee directors, such as Prichard, to receive at least half of their pay in the form of common shares. Prichard has repeatedly denied that his decision-making on campus is affected by any such identification with outside corporate interests.
Similar conflicts exist at other levels of power in the university.
The Board of Governors is stacked with corporate leaders, such as representatives from the Bank of Montreal, Bank of Nova Scotia, Barrick Gold, Price Waterhouse, Sun Media, and from right-wing think tanks and lobby groups the Fraser Institute, C.D. Howe Institute, Canadian Council for Public Private Partnerships, and the Business Council on National Issues. University policy makers are no longer interested in providing an education which benefits public affairs or a student's personal life. He goes further to explain how U of T faculty receive performance indicators based on the value of their grants. In the corporatized university, researchers in the profitable fields of technology and business get priority for grant funding. According to Premier Mike Harris and his friends, there is little need for programs such as Geography and Sociology.