Out with the Empire, here come the Americans. A summer of discontent awaits students looking to join Delhi University, one of the oldest in the country, as it hurtles towards a ‘course correction’—from the current three-year degree course to one that takes four years. It’s a move that has left teachers baffled, for they say the plan was hurriedly conceived and they were not consulted the way they should have been. After all, the old format, with all its shortcomings, has served reasonably well for decades. In some ways, the new format is an acknowledgement of the American four-year undergrad course over the legacy of the British raj.