They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2

Money to be made!

“veto power over tenure cases is increasingly being exercised by higher-level faculty committees or by administrators, rather than by the departmental colleagues of the junior professors who go up for review”

Wooooo boy

This is the thing. His objective attitudes obviously fall well short, but relative to prevailing social norms there is no question.

(In a gallows humor sense, needless)

Generally hate the ‘Trump is doing communism/socialism’ takes, but it would be kind of funny for the USA to be characterized by anachronistic vehicles ala Cuba.