Great essay from Hopkins on managerialism, conflicts of interest, the AI bubble, the decline of faculty governance, and how major donations paradoxically put universities in the red.
Alan Donovan
In a new essay for Public Books, François Furstenberg—”the aging history professor”—marvels at the glassy, atria-adorned buildings rising up on the Johns Hopkins campus—funded by donors, costing more than the donors gave.
Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?
