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The money-grubbing transformation of academia began long ago. First the principle of selectivity in admissions had to go, with the introduction of the GI Bill. Then Latin had to go as a requirement. Then any foreign language at all, or even any core classes. At length college football and basketball became the centerpieces of the public face of universities. Its education graduates who now teach your sixth grader can't spell in their own language, let alone reason in it. The latest development is only the logical conclusion in this process of relegating the central to the periphery, and now to the useless.
Read all about it here in The Washington Post:
The campaign to remove Sullivan began around October, the sources said. The Dragas group coalesced around a consensus that Sullivan was moving too slowly. Besides broad philosophical differences, they had at least one specific quibble: They felt Sullivan lacked the mettle to trim or shut down programs that couldn’t sustain themselves financially, such as obscure academic departments in classics and German.
Ich bin ein Berliner. Sie sind verruckt.
