Posted on 06/12/2017 7:38:25 AM PDT by C19fan
Lawyers representing the traditionally black universities in Maryland are pushing for a multi-million dollar move to transfer academic programs from historically white schools.
According to a report by The Baltimore Sun, the coalition of attorneys proposed to transfer about 20 academic programs currently taught at traditionally white universities as part of a legal effort to push back on "shameful history" of segregation.
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I see we are abandoning segregation studies for bigotry. Don’t think that will gain any jobs for anyone but black lawyers.
How about simply closing the historically black campuses and reallocating the money and students to other campuses?
End these remaining vestiges of ugly heritage of segregation. No different than tearing down the confederate statues in New Orleans.
Author is “Nikita Vladimirov” I guess this is more “Russian interference,” ya think?
Why would it cost more than 10 cents to just change the curriculum??
Yup, I can think of no better means of removing what little academic stature those “institutions” have than to transfer to them worthless areas of studies which produce nothing save for hate.
After all, they obviously do not want all those “white privilege” useless things such as math, physics, chemistry, engineering, etc.
It’s long past time to start calling out these idiots for what they are. It’s not the color, it’s the idiocy. And a culture of blaming everyone and everything else for the fact that Africa has been a failure for its entire time of existence
I have a friend who is one of the only white instructors at a HBCU.
He doesn’t say much, but he’s been the target of much racism.
Simple solution, Maryland parents, send your kis outa state for college.
It’s interesting that neither this article nor the linked Baltimore Sun article make any mention of what programs the lawyers want transferred. I’m guessing it’s not quantum physics.
Well, it all depends on which programs are being transferred, doesn’t it. If it is a program that whites really want to be a part of, then that will mean more whites at HBCUs, but that will dilute HBCUs’ “blackness”—kind of like the ‘evil’ of whites moving into historically black neighborhoods. If it is a program that blacks dominate on the main campus, it will mean fewer blacks at the main campus and a kind of resegregation that many college blacks are currently demanding.
Does no one remember the all black ‘Medical School’ whose ‘graduates’ succeeded in KILLING a large percentage of their patients?
I don’t get this. Are they talking about making some programs available “only” at HBCUs? They can’t have them at both?
Perhaps the States need to get out of the education business.
They are being hit with the need to allocate education resources based on race. Either just tell the historically black colleges that they are no longer “black” and have no special privileges to have any program they want to have without enrollment or student body justifying those programs or separate the State from control and responsibility for the colleges.
The State can still dispense grants based on enrollment if they choose or subsidize student tuition individually on whatever basis the State desires.
So to solve the problem if segregation they want to segregate even more
This is pur commie balder dash
The merit of this idea is that it will reduce duplication of degree programs in the MD university system. A good example is the online degree program at UMD University College, an arm of UMD. There’s no reason why each Maryland university should have its own online degree system, when one will do.
There’s the rub. Consolidating will cost universities and their faculty and bureaucrats funding and jobs. Consolidating these programs to HBC will also cut the power of these same people at the main UMD campus.
Because of that, this will fail. Always follow the money/power trail.
“Perhaps the States need to get out of the education business.”
For decades the costs of post secondary education have inflated at a rate double the CPI due to the influx of money from federal and state governments. Universities have accumulated large bureaucracies and funded costly fringe social activism and ethnic/gender studies degrees that do not prepare students for employment in the marketplace. Tenured professors teach 1 or two class per week (6 hours per week in front of students) while the private sector middle class taxpayers supporting the universities are working 50-60 hour weeks. It is not uncommon today for a state university president to be drawing a $500 K or higher salary plus substantial perks such as free housing and travel.
Eliminating public funding will force universities to become much more efficient. Downsizing bureaucracies, putting senior professors in the classrooms instead of doing often meaningless research. Utilizing classrooms 10-12 hours per day instead of building new buildings. Ending grade inflation and tightening standards so the students not serious about learning flunk out in the first year, resulting in a smaller upperclass population. Eliminating tenure so poor teachers can be fired instead of parked in a subsidized research job and carried for decades. Heaven forbid the colleges might have to reallocate some of the academic revenue to teaching or even convert non-revenue generating athletic programs to club sports.
Eliminating government subsidies might result in cost cutting measures that actually benefit students. For example, are students in business schools well educated by tenured academics with PhD’s in business who have never worked inside a profit making firm or would they be better served to be instructed by retired business executives who have actually delivered profits and turned around struggling businesses? Would engineering students benefit from more instruction by retired engineers who have decades of practical experience instead of book and lectured trained academics?
The truth is, society would be better served by shifting billions of education dollars from 4 year liberal arts programs to real trade schools and vocational training. The nation has a real need for mechanics, electricians, computer programmers, plumbers, and machinists, and carpenters yet we are starving vocational schools and pouring money into four year educations for unemployable social justice warriors.
Eliminate funding of four year degrees. Establish public/private partnerships for vocational training where students can learn skills they can turn into real jobs.
Maybe they’ll transfer every program with the word “studies” in its name to the HBCU’s. I’d have no problem with this at all.
We should transfer Division 1 athletics while we’re at it.
The waste is appalling but is typical for G’vt work, after all its only play money!
Universities are overdue for the discipline of the marketplace and it may be the saving of the next generation on more than one level.
It will get the cost down so that the students won’t begin their careers with a mountain of debt. In some ways Universities are a mirror of what Obamacare tried to accomplish: people paying for things they couldn’t use or were inapplicable to them(universal mandated benefits/high deductibles)in order to subsidize those who could find a way to be on the gravy train.
Both G’vt involvement in colleges & Obamacare, are destroying the product (healthcare/education)by their distortion of the marketplace and unintended consequences.
Also hard to see how they are going to support all those Black Studies and Social Justice departments without subsidies. Much less $ to support liberal professors with agendas...Such a shame/sarc.
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