Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona has hired a new president. John Flicker was once head of the National Audubon Society and Nature Conservancy. Arizona radio station KJZZ reports that the private liberal arts college has had a history of financial problems and have, essentially, turned to Mr. Flicker to bail the college out with fundraising efforts.

I have commented previously on environmentalist groups having had their policies implemented in school curriculums and even the leaders of green organizations hired as the heads or in leadership positions in government agencies or vice versa. However, in this case, you have a college that specializes in sustainability, education and outdoor leadership hiring a man who headed two environmentalist groups trying to remake the wheel. If I had to take an educated guess, the real reason why Prescott College doesn’t have much visibility and is in financial trouble is due to the fact their educational curriculum produces little to no value. As a result, the college hires someone like John Flicker to essentially remake the wheel.

Earth to Prescott College: you are in trouble because the programs and degrees you offer are of little value to anyone. If you really value your college’s existence, it’s time to think outside the box and offer people real educational value for their money. Specializing in environmentalist-oriented subjects when environmentalism and the anti-human things the groups based on it stand for is the reason why you are in trouble. A large segment of people seeking an education want to have nothing to do with a learning institution like yours that gives legitimacy to a mass movement and philosophy that sees mankind as a cancer and wants to wipe people off the face of the planet.