This is too good; a conservative president over a university.
Where does one start, cleaning up academia?
Does that mean 80% of the professors will get fired (like they should)?

All those tenured professors and so little time! I expect Daniels will make huge waves at Purdue and it won´t be long before the entire faculty is against him, not the students, though. To those ivory towered pseudo intellectuals you may actually have to teach a freshman survey course in Western Civilization. What a horror!

This is going to be interesting to watch, I suspect the board that hired him knew what he was going to say. Purdue is not a public university - so major changes may be coming.

Readers may be getting it wrong. Daniels will win over most profs by getting rid of administrators, who almost outnumber the teaching staff. He has courted the professors and wants more money directed to the successful departments like agriculture and engineering. Wymens Studies and sociology will not be happy, but their students only end up with a lot of debt and a job at Starbucks. Purdue has a pretty conservative culture, and his leadership may force changes around the entire country.

PS. Purdue is a public land grant university. And if I´m not wrong, Daniels was able to appoint several of the trustees that hired him. He has a solid mandate to make changes. In addition, the students will love him, he will ride his motorcycle to work, sit in the crowd at every game, etc...and he is a rock star nationally.

Yes,Purdue is a Land Grant University. The land was donated with the condition that all of the University Buidings be built of red brick. They are beutiful buildings, it is of no concern that the only local source for red brick just happened to be the former owners of some worthless fallow farmland.

Purdue is a good place to start this sea change. It is an engineering school, with strong programs in the hard sciences. It is also (or was) one of the most conservative campus´ in the country. During the horrendous campus shenanigans of the late sixties Purdue had only a single mass student protest. The administration had imperiously cut class time from 60 minutes to 50 minutes. The students were in a lather. Newsweek described Purdue as a "hotbed of student rest". In 1985, the year I graduated, the largest student organization was the young republicans.

I´m guessing a lot has changed, but they are still lightyears ahead of the likes of Occidental, Harvard, Columbia, Berkley....

As a 1965 Purdue grad I can tell you I am thrilled with Mitch Daniels´ start. I loved the part where he said that universities had become too PC in their outlook. You have to remember that his predecessor came from the University of California system. In less than five years she turned Purdue into one of the leading institutions invested in perpetuating the liberal scam of Global Warming.

Get out your broom, Governor, and start sweeping.