Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 20, 2014
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Transcript:
President King: As Walden moves into this exciting new for-profit space, some may wonder about her education standards. Well, I'm happy to announce that we have every reason to believe the new Walden will be partly accredited! Friend: Partly! Wow! Zipper: Game on, University of Phoenix!
I’m fine with partly accredited. Lots of accredited folks fell for the Alan Sokal hoax. And not just the gibberish part – they bought the thesis that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct.
I wonder if Sokal could write a random essay generator whereby one could get a University of Phoenix humanities degree by autopilot…