COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S POST-MODERN PRESIDENT
Chester Finn dispels the cant emanating from Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University:
Academic self-delusion
Columbia University president Lee Bollinger is full of folly. First, he offered the world a troubling vision of the future of journalism schools that would render them more like ed schools. (See http://www.edexcellence.net/foundation/gadfly/issue.cfm?id=20#179.) Now he has seized upon his university's 250th anniversary to discourse in the Wall Street Journal about what he, with nary a bow to Cardinal Newman, calls "the idea of a university" (http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB106617939829836100,00.html). As Columbia is spending a full year celebrating its birthday, the world has eleven months left to argue with him. Allow me....
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