Posted on 02/27/2019 5:38:58 AM PST by reaganaut1
I’m reminded of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American Scholar”, an address to the Harvard Divinity School.
I expected it give praise. It didn’t. Nice read
And that's why the government took over student loans, in order to facilitate legions of students getting degrees that leave them unqualified to do anything except being an "activist" or "community organizer".
Retail politicians must pay homage to the teachers union to even get started.
Ding dong ding ding
Winner
Correct answer
Which points out that accreditation reform is the most immediate problem. The existing accreditors have absolutely no intention of upholding academic standards or doing anything else the public thinks is important (graduation rates, employability, starting salaries, cost, innovative programs and formats, etc). We must recognize new accreditors to get around them. I am tempted to think that more regulations on the existing ones would help (requiring them to compete with each other for example) but it is probably too little, too late.
U of Michigan has a Diversity programs annual budget of $79 million.
“The real problem is that over the last forty years universities have been forced to expand their academic programs to include non scholarly political nonsense such as women’s studies, ethnic studies and LBGT programs.,,,”
Not to mention psychology which, over time, has engendered the “oh, that’s why I/you/they feel/act/respond/think that way” mode of personality over character. This requires very little intellectual vigor and places emotional maturity over ... maturity. Very useful if over a long period of time one/one’s ideology wishes to manipulate a large demographic.
It’s all about the feelz
!!Chaos to the enemy!!
KYPD
If tenure was such a great idea every industry would have it.
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