[E. Pluribus Unum]

The “elite” universities are hedge funds with classrooms attached.

[JJBookman]

Modern “elite” American universities are ideological factories for young skulls full-of-mush. Both my wife and I went to eastern snob-schools but NONE of my kids will. Anything more than a 2 year degree is a waste of time and a waste of BIG money. Definitely an avoid!

[Tell It Right]

… because they employ professors with stellar reputations (on the basis of having published lots of books)

In other words, they are woke enough for publishers to give them a good star for being good little indoctrinating professors.

[Jonty30]

The only reason to go to an elite college is to make connections to other people, who have or will have access to the elite positions in society.

For the most part, the level of learning is probably pretty indistinct between the colleges these days.

[Libloather]

...he thinks that much of the criticism is weak...

You suck. Not weak.

[Socon-Econ]

Why attend a high priced DEI mill?

[cgbg]

Peer review has created a system where a bunch of clowns using big words receive huge government grants to spew out lies confirming the lies of other clowns using big words.

Shut it all down—and give every white person in America the proceeds of the endowments as reparations for sixty years of anti-white hate and discrimination against white people.

[Retain Mike]

I like Adam Smith on the subject. He said, “The average university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection, after they have been hunted out of every other corner of the world.”

[LongWayHome]

This guy must be 100 years old by now. He’s been around forever.

[Chode]

no no no, ELITISTS...

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Cry me a river. Burn that bitch down.

[DesertRhino]

We only judge you by your results. We see nothing elite. We see the well connected buying access at the blob. You used to be elite, now you aren’t. The hardest part is getting in, the actual education is better at a decent land grants school in Texas or the Midwest, Colorado school of mines, New Mexico tech. I have seen the products that come out of those places. Prove me wrong

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That "publish or perish" university thing?

You get grants no matter what your "publish" record is.

And their "peer-reviewed" journals are a bad joke.

“Beware those scientific studies—most are wrong, researcher warns”

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-beware-scientific-studiesmost-wrong.html

“So much for ‘peer review’ — Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 gobbledygook papers”

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/so-much-for-peer-review-wiley-shuts-down-19-science-journals-and-retracts-11000-fraudulent-or-gobblygook-papers/

[Organic Panic]

Have graduates from “elite” universities produced anything? Really. Who do you call at 4 am when your toilet backs up or when your car breaks down on the freeway? The last person I want to call when I am in distress is a Hahvahd graduate. And as a business owner, I would NEVER hire one of those idiots.

[Rockingham]

I went to a semi-elite private university in the South in the 70s. It's faculty included many liberals, a core of old school non-ideological types devoted to the educational mission, and few conservatives. I got two significant intellectual assets: an ability to write coherent, grammatically correct English, and a genuine understanding of history. Nowadays, I could get both via the internet at a small fraction of the time and cost.

[bray]

Have they decided not to make Jews wear Yellow Stars?