Academic freedom? Nope.
Articles about the board vs faculty vs president
donnybrook at Mt St Marys are describing the problem as "academic freedom". Nonsense. The president is just a Wall Street asshole who is accustomed to running things the JPMorgan asshole way.
He's implementing goals chosen by the board of regents. The goals make perfect sense. Cut extravagant retirement benefits. Make courses more attractive and more job-relevant. Ease out beginning students who are not up to snuff before the students waste more of THEIR OWN time and the school's time.
All excellent goals, but Newman is obviously not the right man to implement them. You have to talk a language that the audience understands. I don't know of
any school, even hard-line commercial DeVry, where a president could talk about "drowning the bunnies and putting a Glock to their heads."
The real tragedy is that these excellent goals are now unachievable thanks to their association with the JPMorgan asshole.
Hmm. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Obama had two excellent goals, but he remained solidly locked to the Wall Street supersatans who are PULVERIZING AND EATING THE ENTIRE HUMAN SPECIES. As a result his excellent work (Cuba and Persia) will get tossed out along with the MONSTROUS PILE of infinite evil that he did everywhere else.