Yes, that is part of what I meant by redeem, but also to open the university up to new ideas. We are recruiting for a new position, but I assume that the funding will be yanked.
It is shocking to see how similar the vast majority of the applications are. What passes as a new idea is that the distribution of land ownership reflects entrepreneurial abilities. That is included in a job application.
Defunding universities was intended to make them more dependent on business. It worked.
-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929
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