Don't call it a comeback . . . .
It's behind the registration wall, not the pay-to-read firewall, so no link. But the NYT op-ed page runs a piece mocking Case's SAGES program. The mockery is scathing: the author of the piece just quotes SAGES materials.
posted by Number Three @ 7:14 AM
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Sorry, this link should work:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/opinion/26Budiansky.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=login
The "branding" by Budiansky is, alas, all too well deserved -- difficile est satyram non scribere. What the Budster forgot to mention is that the university actually borrowed money to do it, compouding the lunacy.
The catch phrase is "student-centered learning environment." The Case example may be especially good fodder for satire, but everybody's doing it to one degree or another. Here at MTSU, we have constant debates about name changes too, made more complex by the fact that the easiest simplifier would make us either MTU or UMT ("Empty U" or "U Empty").
As fate would have it, our department of 3 just had a meeting with the Director of SAGES an hour ago. At the end of it he asked, "So, did you all see the article on SAGES in the NYTimes this morning?" All nodded with nervous laughter. His response: "We're working on some sort of comeback, you know, in a joking manner. Hey, better to in the NYTimes than to be ignored."
O ye gods, would that you turn a blind eye towards such folly.
No blind eye is being turned to this particular folly, unfortunately. I just noted that the Budiansky piece is the #1 most emailed article on the NYT website.
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