… in the Minneapolis Star Tribune notes that the most charitable description of what’s been going on at the clubby University of Minnesota medical school would be “bizarre.”
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Who's dismantling
the Ivory Tower?
the Ivory Tower?
From an outstanding column by Nora Leinen in the University of Minnesota Daily.
"It’s hard to find a day we aren’t inundated by the news of more financial troubles for the University of Minnesota and higher education in general. It’s hard not to feel students’ educations are being left on the bench in place of a profit-driven administration"
There is an excellent book on this topic by UC Santa Barbara English prof, Christopher Newfield, published by Harvard U. Press, "Unmaking the Public University."
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The answer to the question about who is dismantling the Ivory Tower (and why) may be found there.
Just one example:
This book should be required reading for the Morrill Hall Gang.
This has already happened, at least according to the students who are here.There are solutions to these problems. Ask your colleague Gordon Gee at Ohio State and change the University's behavior at the legislature.
Leadership matters.
Also align the goals of the University with those of the citizens of the state. Are they interested in an affordable, high quality education? Or do they believe that more sand should be pounded down the rat-hole that is the third best public research university in the world fiasco? For shame! You know the answer to this question.
For some suggestions on how to get out of this mess, please see an old rant that is relevant even today:
http://ptable.blogspot.com/2007/01/can-bigu-become-greatu-half-worlds.html