But it’s professors who still push all of the crazy, immoral s*** on the students.
In the late 1960’s I was president of the college Republican club at a state college in Minnesota. From time-to-time I worked with a couple of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) members on several issues. Our common points of agreement-hiring more administrators with more regulations.
After teaching at the college level for 30 years, I found my views on administrators has not changed much.
I have a BA in History (UWa 78) and an MA (actually a MSSM) in Systems Management (not IT-related) (USC 88). The history degree taught me to research and write at the college level. The masters degree introduced me to analytical approaches and tools. So I benefitted - to a degree - from the college education experiences at the time. At. The. Time.
But times change.
Academic institutions, like large institutions everywhere, are thoroughly infected with Woke, LGBT+, and CRT ideologies. These infections, as the article implies, are hosted and nurtured in the administrative superstructure of the colleges and universities. Specifically in the Human Resources Department Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) sections.
As the old saying goes: “The fish rots from its head.”
And, to be frank, I can understand why increasing numbers of middle and lower class high school graduates are choosing to forego the debt incurred and time lost that a college degree represents today. Scientific fields and engineering fields are still worth taking degrees in even thought the DEI rot has infected them as well. But the liberal arts, which were sort of limited from a jobs standpoint to begin with, are simply schools of indoctrination. Other than producing caretakers and curators for their libraries and collections, society has no need and does not benefit from what their woke, SJW graduate has to offer.
Burn it all down. Then rebuild it to serve genuine societal interests.
The price of college goes up as do the salaries because the federal gov’t is covering the cost.
So many of the professors’ students are aiming for those jobs. There’s not much else they can do. So the professors aren’t going to rebel. Also, the administrators control the flow of funds to departments and programs that don’t pay their own way through profitable research. Rebel against them and, win or lose, your department will get less money.