<p>If you really want some insights to the potential and possible potholes of Elon, read George Keller’s book. It is really head-on, insightful, and doesn’t pull punches about the potential problems facing Elon’s future. It’s very problemmatic, it seems, but Elon’s culture is not a risk-adverse one …so who knows. I believe their keys will be if they’re immediate past will be fascinating enough to foundations and private, non-alumni philanthropists to pony up some major monies… hundreds of millions. That’s not the ultimate answer, but they’ll not be able to fulfill their next potentialities in its absence. </p>
<p>As far as students go …in the short run it’ll not make much difference. It’ll make a huge difference for those graduating in the class of 2020. </p>
<p>My own impression is that Elon is at great risk of becoming just one more harvard wannabe. Sadly, too many college presidents, and Lambert may be one of them, are about as uncreative, unimaginative, and uncourageous about what genuine undergraduate engaged learning means and they thus all begin to meander toward the …bonehead, scholarly, research type mode. In fact, there’s tons of evidence that worldly success and achievement has little congruance with those modes. Still, universities are like lemmings …they all are afraid to step out of line. The ONLY reason Elon’s done so since the late '60s is they HAD to. They were on the verge of extinction. </p>
<p>When you’re stuck on a desert island, with none but Wilson to talk to … it’s very en-couraging when there’s little down side.</p>