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		<title>kill the English department</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2009 The American Scholar published yet another statement of the obvious subtitled "The demise of the English department" by William M. Chace, who waxes nostalgic for the good ole daze at Haverford when getting a degree meant searching for meaning in life. Of course in the Elysian fields of a mainline Philly campus, the affluent, anglophilic white boys who attended when Chace was an undergrad had the money and time to play cricket and contemplate their collective navels while the working class took advantage of those state universities to earn a degree to get a job.]]></description>
		<link>http://academicsatire.com/?p=80</link>
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		<title>bryn mawr little women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was not without accident that the dean of admissions at Bryn Mawr College at the time, Jennifer Rickard, also served as the dean of financial aid. Rickard clearly understood that the words “enrollment” and “endowment” were synonymous.  No accident either that little Tiffany, renamed Grexa Lewis by marriage, works now as a fund raiser for Haverford College just down the mainline from BM.]]></description>
		<link>http://academicsatire.com/?p=69</link>
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		<title>Errata: West Virginia University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The AP and sundry other media today reported that the West Virginia University president, Mike Garrison, resigned without leaving campus.   Garrison, who looks like a middle lineman on the Mountaineers football team, plans to stick around until September.  He&#8217;s leaving then for the usual reason: the corruption of power.  The West Virginia governor&#8217;s daughter had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://academicsatire.com/?p=39</link>
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		<title>Errata: Nothing&#8217;s Changed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The chancellor of higher ed was on camera for his Big Exaggeration interview a few days ago, which means it's budget time again. The script reads this way: If the university system doesn't get more money, the quality of higher education in the state will decline, all the good professors will take jobs elsewhere, and the student-teacher ratio will become intolerable.
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		<link>http://academicsatire.com/?p=3</link>
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