What's Happening To UVa?

It's finally happened: business school thinking has come to the University of Virginia.  Thomas Jefferson must be spinning in his grave.  Leaders of the Board were so taken with a David Brooks article about the glories of on-line instruction through the University of Phoenix, that they ordered new President Sullivan to close several departments and adopt an austerity program.  All of this was done in secret until the campus had emptied for summer recess, and then a mass e-mail informed the faculty and students what was up.  Now there is outrage about what happened to President Sullivan, but we should all be outraged about the sort of thinking being inculcated by our business schools.  Think credit default swaps, Bain, and outsourcing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/24/uva-teresa-sullivan-ouster-_n_1619261.html