Shipped to Fenwick Library 26 September 2007. The paper "Obstacles to Systems Science Programs in Higher Education 3; Virtual Conspiracies" focuses on the topic of the "virtual conspiracy" in which numerous forces act against the initiation and continuation of systems science programs (though without formal agreement or even, necessarily, intent, but with equivalent intensity as though there were formal agreement or intent) with unfortunate consequences. This was planned to be the third in a series of four articles on systems science in higher education. Manuscripts of all four of the articles were sent to GMU 27 September 2007 and are in Box 93 in Fenwick Library. The first of the series was titled "Overview" and published February 2007 in Intnl J. Gen. Syst. Titles of the four are: “Obstacles to systems science programs in higher education: Overview,” “Obstacles to Systems Science Programs in Higher Education II: Thematic Vulnerability,” “Obstacles to Systems Science Programs in Higher Education III: Virtual Conspiracies,” “Obstacles to Systems Science Programs in Higher Education IV: Orthogonal Extension.” The International Journal of General Systems published the first of the series, but not the remaining three.