"It Is No Wonder That Students Have Become More Mercenary in Their Approach"

"I have suggested that schools stop spending so much money and labor on useless research in the humanities, and instead shift that labor and money to teaching. Pay adjuncts more money and hire them as lecturers on regular contracts. Make no research demands upon them. For research professors, ask them to slow down their publication pace—get off the industrial model—and reward them for contact hours with students. And let's close down graduate programs that don't place 80 percent of their Ph.D.s.
"You can imagine how popular that suggestion was."


Scott Eric Kaufman in Salon talks with Mark Bauerlein about Bauerlein's controversial New York Times op-ed.