Well, if it's any consolation, here at O$U we're consolidating and downsizing
our communication and journalism departments in favor of "core social sciences"
like economics (!), political science, sociology and psychology (all with a
quantitative focus). At least this university is trying to avoid the
overproduction of Dan Rathers.
reacy Sidney Smith in the Edinbugh Review of 1809 saw that ancient
universities might be reluctuctant to change their ways: "When an University
has
been doing useless things for a long time, it appears at first degrading to
them
to be useful. A set of lectures upon political economy would be discouraged in
Oxford, probably despised, probably not permitted. To discuss the enclosure of
commons, and to dwell upon imports and exports, to come so near to common life,
would seem undignified and contemptible." From Corelli Barnett, The Pride and
Fall: The Illustion of Britain as a Great Nation, 1986.
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Tom Schumacher
Dept. of Communication
Ohio State University
