Pressure mounts on WWU to preserve computer science department

A comment from a related article makes me question the competence of the people making this proposal.

From someone who was present at a meeting discussing this:

“This decision, apparently still potential, is a permanent statement of the University about the future of Computer Science. The impression conveyed in the meeting with the Provost and Dean was that we had reached the End of History. Now that everyone has a computer and a spreadsheet and a wordprocessor, the contribution of computing to the life of the mind has been exhausted. I do not write this sarcastically. This was the sense of the meeting.”

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/western-washington-university-c...