Er, UVA’s Teresa Sullivan was fired for what?
By Siva Vaidhyanathan | Posted Friday, June 15, 2012, at 7:30 PM
In the 19th century, robber barons started their own
private universities when they were not satisfied with those already
available. But Leland Stanford never assumed his university should be
run like his railroad empire. Andrew Carnegie did not design his
institute in Pittsburgh to resemble his steel company. The University of
Chicago, John D. Rockefeller’s dream come true, assumed neither his
stern Baptist values nor his monopolistic strategies. That’s because for
all their faults, Stanford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller knew what they
didn’t know.
In the 21st century, robber barons try to usurp control of
established public universities to impose their will via comical
management jargon and massive application of ego and hubris. At least
that’s what’s been happening at one of the oldest public universities in
the United States—Thomas Jefferson’s dream come true, the University of
Virginia.
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