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Originally Posted by Archaea
That impresses you? You're too easily impressed. Go look at a real economics department. Of course, they're mostly socialists, Keynsian economists and what not, but that's not much.
Except in Accounting and Engineering, BYU has plummeted in most departments. BYU law is in shambles, when it was once a proud school headed upwards. Our most recent Dean is a guy, who is probably a great human being, but with limited or no outside connections, as opposed to past Presidents.
Its students stay too frequently in Utah. It is too concerned with the appearnce of religiositiy rather than the actual devotion to spirituality and devotion to humanity.
BYU's research aim is pathetic, (what is it research in comparison to let's say, University of Texas at Austin?) it will never achieve Ivy League status and hires too frequently from within. Its staff ris limited in what it can publish and administration does nothing to promote its successful professors.
We need to stop hiring GAs as university presidents. They don't belong there!
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I honestly have no idea what impresses you, other than fitness. You have said multiple times that attending Harvard, Yale, Oxford, etc. are not impressive. You also don't think BYU is impressive. Exactly what is impressive? Can Chino's resume honestly only impress you if he wins a Nobel Prize in Economics (as you suggested)? If so, I am going to say you have unusually high standards for being impressed.