The Woes Just Keep Coming for Case

Crain's is reporting this week that CWRU's Engineering School dean is stepping down. And I'm hearing from an extremely reliable source that two of his counterparts, the deans of both the Case medical school and the business school, may be right behind him in heading for the exits. If so, that would of course be devastating for the university that never seems able to right itself, for reasons that remain baffling. But until those folks on University Circle manage to get their act together (before this century is over, one would hope) the caustic critique of billionaire Peter B. Lewis--who once called Case "a diseased university that is collapsing and sucking Cleveland into a hole with it"--will be difficult to argue with.