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Academic Deception for Fun and Profit

Outside of the technical fields—the hard sciences, engineering, and perhaps a few other dauting disciplines—much of what transpires in today's university can be likened to Soviet consumer production at its most bizarre: huge resources are allocated to achieve a most paltry, shoddy result and, when the payoffs deteriorate further, even larger sums are committed and outcomes falsified. Judged by conventional investment standards—maximize returns from scarce resources—the entire project is in shambles. Virtually anyone who has taught at the college level for twenty-five years or more will confirm that the dumbing down of higher education is not a catchy media-invented phrase.