Why would a "Director of Marketing" have *ANY* input into a college curriculum?

I haven't been around much for quite a while, but I've started reading P.Z. Myer's blog again. He does the usual job of eviscerating the sort of folks who seem to be unclear on the concept of the difference between scientific theory and hypothesis, when I came upon this article:

The fish rots from the head, the tail, and every place in between

Of course, I had to read this, with my jaw hanging open. I then read the linked posts detailing more of the primary sources, which were not as entertaining as Dr. Myer's work, but were equally jaw dropping.

The death of American science is following the same dreary script as had the Muslim world from 600 years ago, unfortunately. When supposedly rational people accept mummery that the world was created in six *human* days (how sacrilegious to impose on an eternal Being our concept of 'day' - but that will be a future post), they expose no concept of eternity.

The little bird of Svithjod