Sunday, January 13, 2019

"What Is a University Without a History Major?" [nytimes.com]

The flava:
Chancellor Bernie Patterson’s message to his campus was blunt: To remain solvent and relevant, his 125-year-old university needed to reinvent itself. . . . The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Dr. Patterson explained in a memo, could “no longer be all things to all people.”

The article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/12/us/rural-colleges-money-students-leaving.html

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2 comments:

  1. EC1January 13, 2019 at 5:28:00 PM CST

    This quote kind of jumped out at me: “Budget cuts will give the flagship university a cold and the regional public colleges pneumonia,” said Thomas Harnisch of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. Yep.

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  2. Froderick Frankenstien from FresnoFebruary 9, 2019 at 4:34:00 AM CST

    It is a deeply impoverished university. Even no less than the U.S. Naval Academy has a History Major. It's the only non-STEM major they have, and knowing history can benefit naval officers and managers of all kinds. This assumes, of course, that the history department will be teaching history, and not postmodernism.

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