The Atlantic has the best treatment so far of the implosion at West Virginia University, an institution I fled over the summer. Like a lot of the current batch of critical attention, it zooms in on President Gordon Gee’s fixation on “land-grant” status, a designation for select universities stemming from the nineteenth-century Morrill Act that’s fairly vague (do lots of agriculture, but "without excluding other scientific and classical studies"). Land-grant verbiage is being
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