U of Michigan imposes mandatory White Privilege class for business students

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[Myrddin]

It is important to "pay as you go" and not pile up a bunch of student debt. There are not enough jobs to go around for college graduates. It is beyond stupid to bury yourself deeply in debt with no certainty that you will be able to earn enough to pay it back.

I graduated from Revelle College, UCSD at age 19 in 1976. It was $212/quarter for registration. $46/year parking. Books ran about $150/quarter and I sold back the ones I didn't want to keep to offset the next quarter. I took 18 to 22 units per quarter in Fall/Winter/Spring and 16 units in the Summer quarter. I had to commute from Chula Vista to UCSD. 50 miles round trip. Lunch as a brown bag. Dinner at Jack in the Box in Clairemont (Sea World Drive) on nights when I had an evening class (18 units where the Provost Office could see it, 4 more from the Extension where it was too late to complain at the end of the quarter). I had ONE quarter with co-scheduled final exams. Both at 7 PM on a Tuesday evening. The neurophysiology exam was 500 questions, multiple choice. The developmental psych class was all essay. I finished the 500 question test in 10 minutes with a perfect score, then ran from the Muir campus to the Matthews campus to start my developmental psych essays. A calculated risks, but pulled an A in both classes.

The cost of courses is far higher today. It would be damn difficult to replicate my college experience. The cost for failure i.e. running up a big bill, not finishing and never earning enough to pay the bill is daunting.

My middle son served with the USMC in Kuwait/Iraq. He returned and used his benefits with University of Phoenix to earn a BS in Business Administration. He makes an OK living as a real estate broker, but his first love is nuclear physics. He finished half of his coursework for his nuclear physics degree and hit the limits of his school loans. He will have to drop out for a year to earn enough money to fund the rest of his degree and restart classes in sync with his remaining course requirements.

[Califreak]

Lengthy college education is good-for certain occupations.

You’re right-it’s not very smart to take on that much debt in a market as down as ours. It’s different if somebody is going to be a doctor or lawyer or something like that.

I’m thinking it’s more of a litmus test for one’s politics than education.

I hope your son is able to finish and prosper in his chosen field.

[montag813]

I have 3 kids heading for college age. I won’t send a single one there, unless it’s for medicine or engineering.

[Wildbill22]

I would say the present white privilege tripe IS an attempt at ‘re-education’, and in this case the re-education camp is the U of M, new home of the useful idiots Lenin referred to.

But as history has proven in many countries, the Socialist/Marxists will eventually force us all to be re-educated and/or sent to the Gulags you refer to.

Their tolerance really isn’t tolerant, and only fair for the sanctioned groups of leftist elites. Then the free thinkers are openly abused and put to death, as they were by the hundreds of millions in the 20th century. Thank you Karl Marx.

[Wildbill22]

I graduated from Hillsdale in ‘84, and I would love my kids to go there, but any other place there would have to be a real money making career purpose that wasn’t dripping in leftist ideology.

[Jack Hammer]

I lived in Japan for a long time and never encountered any anti-White prejudice.

[Amagi]

If I had a son or daughter matriculating at this disgraceful, despicable acaDUMBic institution of indoctrination they would be transferring in a heartbeat.