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Dottie Weigel's avatar

Thank you for sharing this thoughtful essay! I especially liked the quote “The single story hurts universities when brand hierarchy requires picking winners and losers from various academic departments or exploiting faculty for marketing purposes.” This is sad, but true!

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Danielle Kane's avatar

Love this essay -- I never thought about branding in this way. An interesting subtext is the unevenness in the declining respect for expertise. Of course I believe that taxpayers should have a say in the priorities of universities, but would the same weight be given to a patient survey of what drugs should be available without prescription or what procedures should be on offer at their local hospital? And should Joe Public have more say in what's assigned in an English class than in a physics class?

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