Chapter 1588 Crazy Pleasures In The Dark:>Ep126

• The accreditation people took the opposite view, that publications in economics history did not count as research unless there was a testable hypothesis. There never was, all of history is the refined opinion of those still around.
• The obvious solution was to move the dinosaurs to the History department in Liberal studies. That had been considered previously, but it was a hard sell and had to be done carefully, and in the meantime some good people would look for jobs elsewhere. The other view was that the school could wait until the dinosaurs died out. The asteroid was coming, but not fast enough, and if something drastic wasn't done soon the three dinosaurs would kill the school before they faded into dust. The big sticking point was the small number of students enrolled in upper level econ history courses - which were viewed as worthless but easy grades until the poor students could not get jobs after graduation and could not see why. The students had to get through the business core courses, so they claimed they deserved a business degree - it was a valid point, except they got the worst grades in those core courses. Isabel and Rob were both talking to critical folks at the convention about a solution.
• There was one solution, but only the Dean could do it, and he would have to retire afterward. You see, the Chair had to use reasonable factors in setting schedules, even for unreasonable faculty, that was the job. But a Dean could revise schedules without cause and at a time that was too late for appeals. If he put the dinosaurs in the intro econ classes, and they retired in protest (or asked to move to Liberal Arts), the problem would go away. He wasn't ready to take that step yet.