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Monoculture, Blackboard, the President’s Commission, and Accreditation
6/21/2006
American Association of Colleges and Universities,
has said that “the commission is sending out firebolts, one after another.” To chair this extraordinary committee, Secretary Spellings chose Charles Miller, a former chairman of the
University of Texas Board of Regents and, historically, a large contributor to the President’s election campaigns.
My concern is different from Jones’ in that I am not concerned primarily about oversight by an inherently political body (although I am worried), but more concerned that the current system of oversight by nonprofit organizations of experts will be cannibalized so that someone in private enterprise can make another buck. (And make things streamlined, efficient, cheaper, and more monocultured in the process.)
Whether it’s Blackboard or one of the various private education-related enterprises favored by friends of folks such as Michigan’s gubernatorial candidate, Dick DeVos, there is an entire cadre of entrepreneurs out there who have noticed that when the Republicans strip the expertise and value from a government function, that leaves an opportunity for someone in the private world (usually someone connected to the ones who are stripping those things away) to make more money.
Many thanks to Alan Jones for connecting those dots. I recommend the essay.
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