November 26, 1999

Is Success in Business a Qualification for Giving Advice to Academe?

To the Editor:

James F. Carlin claims to present a recipe for "Restoring Sanity to an Academic World Gone Mad" (Point of View, November 5) by calling for radical shifts involving business-management techniques. ... However, Mr. Carlin makes a fundamental mistake that I doubt he would make in any of his successful businesses: With higher education, he proposes to trash its fundamental mission in a misguided effort to cure its ills. ...

By claiming that

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