"How University prevents Geniality", Klaus Hansen

http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/studium/klaus-p-hansen-fuer-gelehrte-ist-uni-feindliches-gebiet-a-883389.html

This is an article in the Spiegel on-line Uni-Spiegel.  I can't seem to find it in English.  Its thrust is to bemoan the downfall of traditional scholarship and thorough knowledge in the favor of faddish non-research and shallow thinking.