Posted on 06/21/2021 7:15:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
American universities have become completely leftist in outlook, something that is depriving students of both knowledge and wisdom. Moreover, they intend to stay that way, as demonstrated by a single question they ask applicants seeking teaching positions, a question that will stop the process dead in its tracks when the applicant is a conservative.
In 2006, I moved to Europe to become a university lecturer. I was one of three co-founders and the chair of the art department at a school for game developers in the Netherlands. In that role, I hired and supervised our teachers, developed the curriculum, helped promote the school publicly, and most importantly, taught a lot of classes (computer graphics, anatomy, and research writing, among others).
My first rule was “never lie to the students.” This rule had four practical components:
(1) The curriculum had to be practical in the context of helping the students become working professionals.
(2) Teachers would never pretend to know something they didn’t.
(3) Teachers would grade without bias (positive or negative).
(4) Any failures or omissions would be corrected as soon as they were discovered.
The school did well. We quickly earned many awards, international recognition, and our graduates went on to work in good positions at prominent companies around the world.
Alongside my teaching duties, I earned a Ph.D. in Education at King’s College, London. Shortly after the viva (i.e., oral) exam for my doctorate, my wife prevailed upon me to return to the United States so that she could care for her elderly mother. With Ph.D. in hand and twelve years of teaching experience at a successful academy I co-founded, I assumed it would be an easy matter to secure another teaching position in America. However, I am a conservative, and that changes things considerably.
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Put them out of business.
It seems to me that fixing the post secondary system is one of the easier problems to solve.
RE: Put them out of business.
I don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The STEM schools are still some of the world’s best.
But, the liberal arts are different. Today, schools at all levels have been saturated with socialist, atheist, and anti-scientific ideas. The entire Caucasian race, according to Critical Race Theory, is somehow guilty of racism. According to the 1619 Project, America is founded on slavery. Boys can be girls, girls can be boys, and boys can compete against girls in sports without undermining women’s rights, all thanks to the LGBTQ agenda. There are no shortages of strange examples.
IMO, the problems intensified when we as a nation elevated education to the level beyond the status of religion in our society. The schools received the status of churches, the professors the status of priests. Tuition, and tuition support from the government, became the equal of donations to a church. The money poured in easily eclipsing the total of all contributions to organized religions. The major universities function now as virtual city states of liberal thought. They hire from within, outsiders need not apply. Their leaders care not one whit for the country as they dwell on their navels.
RE: IMO, the problems intensified when we as a nation elevated education to the level beyond the status of religion in our society.
I don’t think this problem is limited only to the USA. Have a look at other European countries and tell me you don’t observe the same woke phenomena...
There are a couple of years of general requirement classes including liberal arts in undergrad programs, and they make it harder for American men to get through the technology programs. The radical leftists had already invaded English and medical departments and some of the programs in the sciences during the 1980s.
Ingenuity doesn’t come from feminized rackets, and learning is a lifelong pursuit. Put them out of business.
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