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The University Is Ripe for Replacement | Trending.
We should also consider that efforts to reform the university might only contribute to its endurance. It may conceivably permit a few reforms as a sop to its adversaries, but the situation will persist. After all, with the wavering exceptions of MBA programs and of STEM, the universities are no longer knowledge guilds, but self-regulating commercial and doctrinaire systems interested primarily in profit and social revisionism. They will double down to preserve their turf. The Academy is now enemy-occupied territory, defended by a formidable army of the ignorant, the corrupt, the vulgar and the perverse, and they are not about to surrender their sinecures.
Thank goodness we have the MBA programs to protect us from commercial and doctrinaire systems interested in profit. As for STEM, medicine is of course self-regulating to (the large) extent it can manage, and heaven help the science department that can't bring in funding.
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