Dennis Duggan
2011-03-07 09:19:36
Publius,
You are right on about the problems, but need to think through some of your solutions. Having spent a lot of my life either as a student or teacher in public and private universities, it’s frightening how government money has so corrupted the private ones that they resemble the public ones far too closely already. And letting enrollment completely determine a department budget will kill essential but unpopular majors like mathematics and physics and will put ignorant, naive (and frequently downright lazy) eighteen-year-olds in complete control of the curriculum.
Let’s just eliminate the state subsidies altogether and let the state schools truly compete with private ones.
