After 40 years spent in the university setting, author Simon N. Young, discusses if universities can survive through the drive of commercialization for keeping up on economic stability. He speaks of positive changes which include the increasing population of going to university for a further education, but others are negative such as how the Government and other industries use academic institutions for short-term economic growth. This threatens the very nature of how universities function, since academic teachers want to teach students new knowledge in the higher levels of learning and prepare them for a long-term future under society’s needs. Throughout the centuries, universities have been through a lot of changes without having major threats
