What the self-serving responses from the the 2 administrators reveal is precisely the point I was making: higher education has proven–and these 2 responses re-enforce–that higher education cannot and should not be allowed to police itself. We do not need more self-serving remarks by administrators who revert to any demand for accountability with the refrain trust us– why should any one? You can make any claims you wish but you have no proof— no proof that there are not now at your colleges the same corrupt practices taking place? How would you know? What INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT is in place that does not depend on the mere tautologies of administrators who state you should trust what I say because I state it. Clearly, neither of you would have made in through the first semester of law school if this the extent of your hold on logical reasoning. Again what is needed is direct outside independent oversight with powers of enforcement. Therefore, you can continue to play your games until those in Congress will do it for you. Because the “let us bury our heads in the sand” position is precisely the position welcomed by those on the right who will like nothing more than to have the opportunity to have control over every politically liberal college in America and nothing would bring greater joy to the left than to be able to take down the corporate university complex. So by all means play your self-serving games of we who lead higher education know best and we need no oversight to tell us that we oversee the best of all possible worlds!

So let me understand the self-serving logic here……………..  many in higher education would not accept the position that corrupt Wall Street practices should be reformed by corrupt Wall Street Bankers but that we should allow the corrupt practices of higher education to be reformed by the very same system and administrators that gave rise to the corruption in the first place. Well, there are some terms that could be used to characterize this but I will just leave at hypocrisy.