“From a business ethics standpoint the average university makes Enron look pretty good….Most academic marketing is semi-fraudulent, grading is largely nonsense, students don’t learn much, students cheat frequently, liberal arts education fails because it presumes a false theory of learning, professors and administrators waste students’ money and time in order to line their own pockets, everyone engages in self-righteous moral grandstanding to disguise their selfish cronyism, professors pump out unemployable graduate students into oversaturated academic job markets for self-serving reasons, and so on” (p. 3).
They make a provocative case that higher education perhaps needs to get its own house in order first before it starts throwing accountability stones. Christians, certainly, should be some of the first to ask hard questions.