Edmond Gordon. Don'tcha love the cutesy head tilt?
"His teaching and research interests include: power and identity in the African Diaspora, critical race and gender theory, and the racial economy of space and resources."
The way US New and World Report ranked colleges based on different criteria, a new rating system is now needed. Colleges must be ranked on the degree of Marxism that controls the academic and social life of these “institutions of higher learning”. No decent conservative should pay tuition to an institution until they are informed of the places Marxist index.
Our overlords are planning to selectively block the internet from us knuckle draggers. That will solve a lot of problems for them.
I attended a large, highly rated and popular University for my undergraduate degree. Twenty years later I got my masters from a school I had never heard of before.
It opened my eyes to how utterly abysmal my undergraduate education was.
When it came time to send my oldest child to school it was readily apparent that the larger, more popular, and well-regarded an institution is, the more awful it’s actual ability to educate.
Big, popular schools are focused on politics, not education.
A lot of what they are paying for is the HARVARD name on their sheepskin. Much like watches. You can get a great Citizen Ecowatch that runs on light and is radio synchronized to an atomic clock for $300. Yet people still fork out $5K for luxury brand watches that are crappy.
Did anyone actually believe they were going to Harvard to learn? They famously say that the “hardest part about Harvard’s is getting in,” and kids who get into Harvard already know everything anyway.
As one commenter recently pointed out, Harvard doesn’t sell education, Harvard’s sells admission to the liberal elite. I don’t think this will affect them at all.
I still think there’s a case that can be made in this country to knock the entire system down, if someone would try.
What we now have is the equivalent of a pricing system where one goes to the supermarket and the price that he has to pay for groceries is variable, and is different for every customer, based on the customer’s income, assets, and access to further income (for example, as you walk by and look at the steaks, it flashes $32/lb., the next guy, who is not as well off, it flashes $11/lb.). If the supermarket customer says ‘go to hell, you don’t get that information, for your so-called dynamic pricing’, then they are forced to pay a ‘sticker price’ which is at least several times above cost and would fall under gouging laws ($58/lb., in this case).
The above is EXACTLY what pretty much all private universities are doing at this point (public schools too, but with a lower ‘sticker price’, it’s not quite as bad).
Edmond Gordon. Don'tcha love the cutesy head tilt?
"His teaching and research interests include: power and identity in the African Diaspora, critical race and gender theory, and the racial economy of space and resources."
Every institution and empire becomes sclerotic and corrupt in time. At the end of its life cycle there is a time when people realize it but they keep it going anyway for a while. The large cities are going through this.
No frat parties? I’m out!
Same with office buildings and commuting to white collar jobs in the “city”.
They teach hate.
--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase Home Schooling. When the products being marketed (higher learning) start out with Location, Name, and Prestige of Interpersonal Network, the PINheads falsely think that it’s their ideas in a PowerPoint (the actual death of education) that someone will pay for. Universities are about to go the way of newspapers. Hands on Tech schools will thrive; knowledge base switched online, not so successful.
I had this discussion with the wife. Most likely our girls are not going to college unless Hillsdale is within our means. Looks more like trade schools.
That $49,000 tuition per semester won’t be commensurately reduced. Oh, no – perish that thought.
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Agree. And I heard that foreign student sign up for American universities is way down — which is a huge financial hit to them.
I live near the University of Georgia (UGA). It will be interesting to see if students come back or not.
UGA will open, and an interesting change is that the university will do “distance learning” from Thanksgiving to the end of the year.
The last football game of the season is a homegame against Georgia Tech — two days after Thanksgiving.
Harvard is probably only doing this to appease the Boston Liberals and appease the “you-must-wear-a-mask” fanatics.
Fancy payday loan stores. Instead of a car title they hold your birth certificate.
The good news is the annoying left wing profs and students will have no physical place to march if they are getting an online education. Love that we don’t have to see them and they are stuck behind a computer screen. They can throw that brick at their computer screen and, like a tree falling in the forest, there will be no one there to hear it....other than their parents who were suckered by the university into paying 49 grand
Just in order to boot Trump, they are going along with having primarily freshmen on campus, while having the classes online.
And the real truth is that most in-class courses aren’t all that enhanced by being in-class. Harvard especially is famous for its lower-level courses being taught by relatively big names in big lecture halls, while TAs handle more of the smaller upper-classman studies.
But Harvard students are there primarily for two things: the connections and the brand degree. Most critical connections are made as fellow freshmen, since that’s when the abiding friendships are made, and, wait for it, the freshman will still be on campus together this fall.
Moreover, most Harvard parents are wealthy and the money is worth it in their eyes, even if junior takes some online classes. Those parents who are not have their kiddos on scholarship, so who are they to complain?
The issue, as was on track anyway, is with bad schools with bad students, racking up debt their degrees will never pay for.
One of the “pastors” at our church is a college professor. He was instrumental in the invention of a cancer drug. Research is a huge part of universities.