"End the University as we know it" - Op-ed piece from NY Times.

Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 28 Apr, 2009

An Op-Ed piece from the chairman of the Religion department at Columbia, Mark C. Taylor .

 "Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields and publication in journals read by no one other than a few like-minded colleagues), all at a rapidly rising cost (sometimes well over $100,000 in student loans).  "