One has the sense, in fact, that from a high administrator’s point of view, the humanities in general must appear as a sort of vestigial organ upon the university, something it hasn’t yet lost fully through the process of evolution, yet something that no longer contributes to the central mission of the university. That mission is, increasingly, to ‘partner’ with the private sector. Among other things, this partnering requires that academics learn to speak, or to imitate, the language of the men and women of business. And this in turn requires that the short-term pay-off of inquiry be immediately evident, even, or especially, to those who are not participating in the inquiry.

Quebecers United Against the ‘Business World’ | berfrois