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Interesting that President Lefton chose a retail-customer analogy to express his view of what public universities (KSU)should offer. It is precisely the university as business paradigm first instituted by Carol Cartwright that took a rather good university and reduced its full-time faculty to below fifty percent, out-sourced many of its services resulting in a decline in the quality of those services, eliminated core liberal arts university programs (try to do a graduate program in strictly literature in our English department today--the courses just aren't there),changed the University Health Service to a fee for service unit while reducing the number of full-time physicians (starting with its most senior physicians)closing its laboratory and terminating two extremely experienced and respected Physician's Assistant's in favor of barely experienced Nurse Practitioners,and created a top-heavy administration while eliminating hourly civil service positions.

President Lefton, please do NOT just carry on the misguided policies of our former president. A continuation of the public university as business paradigm will serve only to keep KSU on its downward spiral.

Let us hope that President Lefton has both a sense of humor and a broad enough academic background to identify the pseudonyms used in this comment and the previous comment.