University of Virginia Scandal Fingers Education's Corporate Masters

Huffington Post by Jason Linkins | Jun. 24, 2012 (Investigative Report)

Members of the board, steeped in a culture of corporate jargon and buzzy management theories, wanted the school to institute austerity measures and re-engineer its academic offerings around inexpensive, online education, the emails reveal. Led by Rector Helen Dragas, a real estate developer appointed six years ago, the board shared a guiding vision that the university could, and indeed should, be run like a Fortune 500 company.

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 by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 24, 2012

The threat of the corporate rich destroying our education system as they are destroying our republic is brought into view well in the story of this coup.

The rich board members are qualified to teach greeduate classes, not classes in western civilization nor ethics.

“Reading a few op-eds and articles in the Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Chronicle of Higher Ed does not qualify you to make definitive judgments about hugely ... More »

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