How Scott Walker's ego is sucking a once-great university dry.

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Withering-of-a-Once-Great/231565/?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

America built the greatest higher education edifice the world has ever seen.  It is one of the last areas of endeavor in which we remain the world beater.  And ambitious a**holes are blithely gutting it for their own benefit.  The short-sightedness of CEOs, who focus only on the next quarter, seems to be spilling over into higher education, where similarly self-serving chief executives and legislators are sucking the historically great land-grant schools dry.