IT'S THE REPUBLICANS FAULT YOU HATE US!
Now get out of here
Academia is wrong in blaming others. They are known by their works, and a dominant mass of their work is not education but political indoctrination.
I blame state legislators for not cracking down on this nonsense.
1) Schools should only be subsidized based on the number of graduates in each major that get job placement in their field of study within six months or a year after graduation. If they want to study medieval feminist lesbian literature, fine, but the taxpayers should not pay for a single dime of it.
2) The school loan system is out of control, and it is ruining the lives of students and graduates, so states should prohibit education with loans for the aforementioned bogus majors. It is almost so bad that states may consider loan caps even for desirable majors, offering instead that money that previously flowed from loans direct to the schools beyond that cap instead go directly to the students.
That is, for a given major, a student may go up to $75k in debt, but any costs beyond that come from the state appropriations to the university. It still goes to the school, but no longer lets the school “double dip” with both appropriations and tuition.
In a just world, the DoJ would be on campuses pressing charges against many of these people for civil rights violations.
How many profs served a hitch in the military?
Asymptotic to zero.
IT'S THE REPUBLICANS FAULT YOU HATE US!
Now get out of here
And those in the universities think we are the “great unwashed hillbillies.”
If the Universities hadn’t become indoctrination camps, they would have more respect.
The Professors need to look in the mirror, before they blame anyone else for their decline in respectability. They have been working for almost three generations, which I know of, to earn the disrespect of all rational men & women.
Media has nothing to do with it. There are two primary reasons for the dismal view of academia:
1.) Universities that suck on the public teat, producing little more than dreck, and which induce youngsters to take on lifelong loans for the sole purpose of Marxist indoctrination in place of learning skills and knowledge necessary for the student to become a productive citizens.
2.) Fake and fraudulent “science”:
A.) Fake climate “science”
B.) Fake nutritional “science”
C.) Fake cosmology “science” that says life is nothing more than a temporary pocket of negative entropy.
Universities have been standing fashionably and loudly against mainstream values and traditions to demonstrate how progressive and non-conventional they are for sixty years at least - it didn’t take conservative media to convince the public, especially alumni, that higher education does not have the best interests of the country in mind......