Posted on 07/04/2018 9:31:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan
something: the ideological contests are fading. What Irving Kristol famously said in his 2001 Bradley Lecture, “We in America fought a culture war, and we [conservatives] lost,” applies well to higher education. Conservatives fought wars over multiculturalism, Western Civilization, affirmative action, the Academic Bill of Rights, and political bias in hiring, and we lost every time. The educators have no reason to debate ideas, much less ideology. None of those old issues are up for discussion.
(It should be said that Kristol noted that conservatives still had some influence in one theater of American life, religion, but that exemption is irrelevant to the 21st-century campus.)
You can tell ideology is a settled matter by the way in which faculty and administrators handle the core terms—diversity, inclusion. No moral or conceptual examination of those terms ever takes place. Liberals and leftists mouth them without even pondering what they mean save for the simple-minded aspiration of “more women in science” or “more blacks among the leadership.” The only rejoinder conservatives have is, “What about the diversity of thought and opinion?” to which the educators respond, “Oh, yes, that’s good, too,” then proceed on what they were thinking before. When it comes to diversity, everyone’s a bureaucrat.
(Excerpt) Read more at mindingthecampus.org ...
Diversity = anti white male
Academia is a wasteland and it will collapse onto itself.
People are starting to realize that $60,000 a year isn’t buying them anything but brainwashing.
Thanks for posting this! Bauerlein is right on target, as usual. It must be hundreds of occasions when I’ve heard some administrator has invoking that magical, meaningless, politically correct Shibboleth: “Diversity,” without defining it, just as Mark B. says.
Like dealing with any other lemon, it’s time to jack up American higher education and slide a whole new model in underneath. The old body, chassis, engine, drive train, the lot, needs to be carted off to the scrap pile.
A set of identical clones would be considered “diversity” as long as they weren’t the wrong color or sex. “Diversity” isn’t diverse.
Yep too often college becomes a waste of money.
There are some degrees, such as the hard sciences, which pay off in terms of qualifying the graduate for a good paying professional career.
But too many college degrees don’t lead to a career. You can have your degree and still end up working at Target or Walmart or Starbucks, doing jobs you could have gotten without a college degree.
The college campus liberalism definition of “diversity” is that they all look different, and they all think exactly the same !
PLATO: “the empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”
America’s technology problem: the middle skill level jobs are being lost to computers.
One woman said she used to transcribe complex medical dictation at a hospital from doctors who could barely be understood due to really strong accents and syllable emphasis. Amazingly a computer program was developed recently that does that. She lost her job. Others used to analyze sales data to identify best future customers based on trends and background info. of earlier sales. Now an algorithm takes care of that and these people lost their jobs.
We will have lives like Mexico City and luxury areas of the US: cashiers,box boys unloading merchandise,house servants, gardeners and people polishing chrome wheels of luxury cars and wealthy investors,corportion brass,software developers and people who invent ways for malware to be thwarted living in the mansions. Others out of work.
The Borg are supposed to be a horror story, not an example.
The article, in part, deals with the corruption of hard sciences.
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