An English professor, writing in the Times Union, chronicles SUNY Albany’s intellectual disintegration, and, in the process, comes up with a fitting new motto for the school (see my title).
UD has only one editorial suggestion:
EDUCATING DRUNK, UNCRITICAL HALF-LITERATES BY DESIGN
March 25th, 2011 at 10:44AM
Pretty appalling, but this
“UAlbany graduates will be the ideal employees of corporations: ready to take orders but unable to judge them ethically or analyze their social impact critically”
..is a cheap shot. I would think UAlbany graduates would be a much better fit as administrators in the typical public school system, who have far less need for discretionary judgment than the typical professional or management person in a business.
The ritualistic slams on the corporate “other” by academics get rather tiring.
March 25th, 2011 at 11:31AM
“‘UAlbany graduates will be the ideal employees of corporations: ready to take orders but unable to judge them ethically or analyze their social impact critically’..is a cheap shot.”
Not really – it’s just a little imprecise. When taking your order, UAlbany graduates will be able to ask if you’d like that with fries.
March 25th, 2011 at 12:19PM
“Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;
Filths savour but themselves. What have you done?…”
March 26th, 2011 at 7:33AM
My experience is that proffies who orate the longest about the wickedness of corporate life have little or no experience of it themselves.