The real world intrudes..............

.................on the cloistered world of Academe, and those in charge don't seem to be handling it all that well:

"The irony that the very raison d’être of a university—education!—is also its most disposable aspect seems lost on everyone (perhaps because nobody studies English, philosophy, or French anymore, so nobody recognizes irony or knows what a raison d’être is)."

Full post, from whence the excerpt came, is here.

thanks