New Year, new school?

Just before I hit campus, I like to do what I have started to call "shopping around" campus opinion.

This is to say, I decide just for the heck of it, to google goucher college.

Now I don't do this to read what Goucher College itself has put up recently, but rather what the student populace has offered up....and by student, I don't mean Goucher student specifically.

In the same way I sometimes google my full name to see if anything unpleasant has reared its head from my facebook account, I curiously see what has spawned from Goucher.

 

Hailing from the blog The American Dissident, this cartoon is followed shortly with a small write up on the author's views of the "democratic" aspect of Goucher. While reading through what I thought were fairly decent points for someone who never attended or taught (yes it is a professor's blog) Goucher, nor knew anyone who attended Goucher, I stumbled on view I found...odd.

"By the way, Goucher’s MA Program in Cultural Sustainability really exists (see http://www.goucher.edu/x33261.xml). Personally, I thought it odd, if not absurd, to devote an entire Master’s degree program to the topic, an evident specialty in the area of sociology. But such programs tend to proliferate in academe today because they reflect PC ideology and more importantly attract money for the professors and respective institutions. Will we ever see an MA Program in TRUTH and the COURAGE TO SPEAK TRUTH? Likely not! Would Goucher College ever hire a professor like me? Certainly not! Welcome to the brave new world of America. " 

So essentially...I can understand the PC bubble (there is in fact a 'goucher bubble' at times)...but cultural sustainability isn't a viable area of study? I can see where to this professor it falls in the same category as sociology...but I guess I am just too happy with my college education to understand to anger expressed here. I'm not a professor, so this would probably be better addressed by one. I do however, find the cartoon insulting.

I guess my main arguement is: if enviromental sustainability helps keep the enviroment in check, then maybe things like the spike in food prices won't skyrocket from "freak weather" like we are seeing. A lot of people put emphasis on economy economy economy; wouldn't it be perfectly logical to offer a major that by defending the enviroment thereby also defends the economy? Its just a thought.