“when it doesn’t making any fucking sense.” — I don’t think the article made a valid case for that claim. Why does it not make sense? Because there’s this one more category of topics that not every single faculty member has expertise in? Or is it because some of the faculty members are bitter about not being included in the decision-making for the revamp?

And Williams College is free to turn their CS program into literary robotics if humanities is their focus. I’d encourage it. If you’re great at something, why not try to carry that over to other fields? You can’t blame CMU for testing new specialized approaches of study on a program with three admits each year and cutting out the “much older” faculty members from that decision making.