University emphasis on race and gender not helping economy? Seems impossible, doesn't it!

Coach is Right ^ | 4/11/13 | Suzanne Eovaldi

[Oldpuppymax]

The hypocrisy of American academia centers on a craving for donated, capitalist dollars but with no caveats. The miserable state of university and college intellectual achievements runs parallel with the stream of leftist ideology which began back in the 60s, interestingly enough the years when the Bill Ayers, Bernardine Weatherman group began its reign of in-country terror.

When philanthropist Thomas Klingenstein got the drift of how Bowdoin College President Barry Mills felt about the evils of conservatism, the wealthy realist took action. ”Diversity of ideas at all levels of the college is crucial for our credibility and for our educational mission,” he said as he commissioned the National Association of Scholars (NAS) to research the Maine colleges’ real diversity composition. “There’s the obsession with race, class, gender and sexuality as the...

[I want the USA back]

It’s not intended to help the economy. It’s intended to bring about a communist paradise in which all are uniformly poor and miserable, except the ruling elite.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Between the cost of tuition and the useless courses, universities are becoming more and more useless based on a cost/benefit analysis. Kids really should look into a good trade school instead of paying a fortune to go to these colleges to learn useless information about gender and race discrimination, especially if they aren’t the smartest kids in their high school class. The days of most kids going to college are coming to a close, or at least should be.

[Blue Collar Christian]

I can’t see academia supporting, only destroying anything capitalism. After all, they’re the smartest people in the world and have never been fairly compensated by a capitalist society for being so intelligent.

[OneWingedShark]

Kids really should look into a good trade school instead of paying a fortune to go to these colleges to learn useless information about gender and race discrimination, especially if they aren’t the smartest kids in their high school class.

Heck, I went to college and got a BS in Computer Science.. and I'm kinda wishing someone like you would have talked to me about a trade-school (though I'm stubborn and might not have listened) -- I've been seriously under-/un-employed for a year now. (All the jobs want X years of experience, which you can't get without being hired -- basically no company wants to train their employees, but rather want "pre-packaged" candidates.)