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Vocationalism and the tendency to cater to students as consumers, in fact, are much greater threats to these islands than political correctness.

Like any business, higher education has its own language stem and a lot of land-mine vocabulary—diversity, vocationalism, tenure, teaching load.

It already suffers far too much from narrow vocationalism and presentism under pressure to reflect our era’s “needs” or social aims.

The author, Carnegie President Ernest L. Boyer, points to the realities beneath such vocationalism: between now and 1990 there will be 12 million to 13 million jobs for some 15 million baccalaureate earners.

Still, now as then, some faculty members decry creeping vocationalism.