Yes, those salaries are already being paid, but why? What kind of grants are "Leadership" professors bringing in? What purpose are those professors actually serving students? In reality, Leadership Studies should be on the chopping block with the economy in the tank and reduced state funding. Instead, K-State builds a permanent home for nothing but pure waste.
It sounds like you're arguing to cut the program completely. Which I don't really have an opinion on either way. However, using your criteria (won't get you a job, etc.) it seems like there are probably a hell of a lot of minors/majors taht we could cut. i.e. conflict resolution, nonviolence studies, etc.
With respect to the facility, however, I think it's a great, multi-functional addition to campus. lecture hall, six classrooms, a student services center, resource library and study areas. It will obviosuly serve more than merely leadership minor students.
On top of that, the building is a positive improvement to campus, aesthetically and architecturally. I think there's some value in that.
I never said it wasn't a nice building and I never saidi they shouldn't have built.
That being said.
I suspect the long desired 4th addition to the Engineering Complex would be an aesthically pleasing building as well, with extra classrooms, and lecture halls, and likely more computer labs. It's also my understand the long desired 4th addition would house a state of the art computer operations center, imperative for the growth of K-State's expanding server based computer center and essential for K-State's growth as a research university.
I suspect the long desired administrative/academic building in the Grain Science Complex would be a great addition to that end of campus, in addition, they could remodel the the spaces that Grain Science vacated and turned it over to Leadership Studies.
