Posted on 11/19/2021 12:59:03 PM PST by karpov
Predictions that American higher education is on the verge of great change have been heard for quite a few years, but so far the system doesn’t look much different than it did twenty years ago. Perhaps the prognostications were wrong.
I have never doubted that higher education was on an unsustainable path and after reading The Great Upheaval by Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt, I’m more sure of that than ever. They present a convincing case that our higher education system will undergo a disruption that is “needed and inevitable.”
Levine and Van Pelt begin by examining three industries that have experienced profound change in recent years (music, film, and newspapers) and see the same factors that led to change in them asserting themselves in higher education.
First, whereas in the past, the institutions of higher education—our four thousand or so colleges and universities—were in control, the coming upheaval will put consumers in control. The authors write, “In the music, film, and newspaper industries, the industrial era was about institutions, the producers, and production of content. In contrast, the knowledge age focuses on the users of content—the consumers—and consumption. The consumer became the dominant force in the industry, and institutional control declined. That same transition can be expected in higher education.”
What will the rise of consumer control mean? It will mean that higher education services will be unbundled (colleges always loved selling big packages of education and experience to students, but that’s going to change), delivered around the clock rather than at times determined by the schools, and that educational content will increasingly be determined by what consumers want, not what institutions like to provide.
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Must end direct and indirect taxpayer supported tenure. Then higher education will change quickly.
We'll see the beautiful people, all young and fresh and virile in the photographs, but inside will be 24/7 indoctrination from 1984 history to controlled "social structures" ... clubs (bars), "dating" privacy and all other aspects intent on spewing out womb to tomb red diaper babies all grown up.
And they will reproduce.
Hitler redux
for better or worse?
“Predictions that American higher education is on the verge of great change have been heard for quite a few years, but so far the system doesn’t look much different than it did twenty years ago.”
I believe that thanks to the Leftist Universities have morphed from Institutes of Higher Learning into cesspools of wokeism. Now they are well on their way to morphing el/hi education intl that. Their plans are, with Biden’s Build Back Better Socialism they get to control what 3 to 5 year olds learn. Twenty years ago ... really?
Furthermore, while the old model of higher education revolved around time, process, and teaching, the new model will focus on outcomes and learning.
Levine and Van Pelt have identified the drivers of change in higher education, but they will work best if the government can resist the urge to meddle in the process.
Conservative state legislatures need to fire leftist/woke/anti-white racist professors.
If those professors are protected by tenure then close the entire university and reopen a year later with a new name and new staff.
The cancer must be removed from the body—one way or the other.
No excuses.
hopefully ceases to be completely gynocentric
I can tell you that we had college funds for grand children. They are no longer. We will help with mortgages, but we are now counseling against college. I sent five kids to “good” schools. And I am angry at what I got. Maybe my kids got two years of useful education, one year of indoctrination, and one year of stupid classes (”Philosophy of Laughter” for example). I really hate when school wastes your kids time.
I say you send the kids to boot camps and real jobs. Or let them take selective courses at a local public school. But four years of paying huge amounts of money is a waste.
“the new model will focus on outcomes and learning”
The internment camps will be models of efficiency.
“College” is already dead for 90% of the Folks.
Top 50 Schools of Hard Science are one thing., but much of what they do is an extension of the Goobermint.
Internet will teach the Masses, like the promise of TV back in the day. Learn, Prove what you know, and somebody might pay you for it.
But you’re competing with The World today.
Better to move to a place with opportunity, like America vs Europe 200 years ago.
Jimmy Rogers moved to Singapore a while back. Started a whole new Generational Era for his family.
Paris in 1701
London in 1801
New York in 1901
From Wiki-Crackia
“His daughters speak fluent Mandarin to prepare them for the future. He said, “If you were smart in 1807, you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907, you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007, you move to Asia.”
Beijing in 2001
Education will never change. EDU and Journalism Depts. of higher education targeted by Communists in 1930’s, knowing once in control of them, they would brainwash all EDU and Journalism students, and thus eventually all Education and all Journalism with brainwashed, non-thinking cult followers.
There is no one - including the great Rush Limbaugh - who has ever devised a plan to take over those two depts. of higher education.
And until such a plan is both devised and executed, our doom is sure. We don’t have time for such a plan as our nation is too close to absolute tyranny now......tyranny we have - it’s just not absolute.
Yet.
PS: Wife & I very conservative Christian former public school teachers who home-schooled all 8 of our kids starting in 1982 before it was cool (8 degrees among them, 9th soon - & all did it on their own) - who all are also conservative Christians. By the grace of God.
The kids should be using the Internet to develop their areas of interest.
If they are math whizzes they should be studying math many grades ahead of their peers on the web.
Ditto if they want to play or compose music or paint etc etc etc.
These days we should have many more geniuses out there—the parents just need to point them in the general direction and let them fly...
If all conservatives do what you did, there will be no conservative lawyers, doctors, engineers, CEOs etc. Conservatives will become a permanent underclass with zero influence.
Conservatives should try to establish new colleges similar to Hillsdale College, Grove City Colege or Christendom College.
Van Pelt the ESPN anchor?!
I favor storefront colleges.
Professors rent space and sell course time to students.
European History 1816-1913
40 one-hour sessions
$800
8 seats left - register ASAP!
I have already done that. I had my last kid 3 grades up with Khan Academy, at least in Math. I had two other kids playing professionally for violin symphonies in High School. All the real teaching was done outside of school. Languages, music, sports, Math and computers are all best taught outside of school. Colleges are required for certifications only. Virtually everything else can be best taught either in the real world or with the internet or private teachers.
The only thing schools do anymore is to socialize our kids. And that is nothing more than bring them together so they can interact with each other. In many other areas like math and computers and language and music and sports the kids are often better than the teachers before they get to high school. And that is especially true in computers and math.
In our day teachers were good at their subject. That is not true any more. The union sees to that.
Sounds great.
I have a nephew who was a bona fide computer hacker by the time he was twelve.
He laughed at the dumb teachers at school.
He is still laughing—now at dumb bosses at work.
His story—he works for a tech company on the graveyard shift and has refused to be promoted to day shift supervisory positions. The secret—he developed software (not shared with the company) that mechanized all the night shift tasks.
He spends the nights sleeping in the office.
Then during the day he is wide awake and can do whatever he wants.
;-)
There are way too few conservative colleges. And by the way, only conservatives will hire you after they see Hillsdale on your resume. Even those that had been conservative in the past are no longer. My kids are math oriented. They are good at coding and engineering. They are good at management. They will not be doctors or lawyers. They need no certifications. They are all bringing in good money with their BS degrees in data, computers, and engineering. I understand the need for certifications. But my kids don’t need them.
My wife got a masters in social work. That’s 6 years of college to get a very low paying job. A MSW was required for the job of child therapist. She wasted her time and quit because a babysitter made more than she did. Fortunately her experience was very helpful in her most important job, raising 5 kids.
I think there’s a lot of collusion to require certificates and degrees, but of course it’ll never be investigated. The university-industrial complex has an interest in discouraging apprenticeships and other direct paths to good jobs.
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