Spending on public relations and communications is soaring at colleges and universities in the United States, leading to aggressive pushing of questionable story lines, homogenization of comments, and limitations on access to information.
At the University of New Hampshire, the public relations office cooked up a flimsy association between a retired librarian who left $4 million to the university and college football to justify using $1 million of the bequeathal on a scoreboard.
Spending on public relations and communications is soaring at colleges and universities in the United States, leading to aggressive pushing of questionable story lines, homogenization of comments, and limitations on access to information.
At the University of New Hampshire, the public relations office cooked up a flimsy association between a retired librarian who left $4 million to the university and college football to justify using $1 million of the bequeathal on a scoreboard.…
