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I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia
I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world
Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.
American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.
I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.
Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.
The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.
I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.
There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going to do that, so we'll have to live with the defects. It's amazing how wrongheaded [the teaching is]. There is fatal disconnectedness. You have these squirrelly people in each department who don't see the big picture.