Marcus Commission Report
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The Marcus Commission Report of 1979, formally titled "Report on the Presidential Commission on Academic Priorities in the Arts and Sciences", was a harsh assessment of that standing of the university among it's peers.
"We have fallen. The evidence is unambiguous, and candor compels us to acknowledge that we no longer occupy a position of distinct pre-eminense. In several disciplines we have fallen below the first rank." - The MArcus Report on the Social Sciences at Columbia