Utilitarian Reductionism

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Grit your teeth, it's an alternative point of view
Irish president warns of dangers of 'market-driven' universities (insidehighered.com)

[BrianFallon]

Grit your teeth, it's an alternative point of view
Irish president warns of dangers of 'market-driven' universities (insidehighered.com)

Why do you view this as “alternative?” What position do you have on President Hughes’ comments?


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[dfrecore]

It's practically impossible to know what he's saying, what he thinks the universities should be doing instead, etc. Give some examples of what you mean, and what you think the fix is sir.

[rachel83az]

I'm glad I'm not the only one confused. It sounds like he wants professors to be able to teach whatever they want (or get paid not to actually teach at all) without having to worry about student enrollment numbers. Like... that's fine, but I'm sure that there'd still be multiple classes on things like how to use teletype machines because the tenured old professors wouldn't feel any need to change. That sounds like the opposite of the innovation that he claims to be wanting.