Posted on 12/07/2022 3:58:37 AM PST by karpov
[T]he culture of higher education has operated to undermine its own continuing existence.
The unrelentingly, radicalizing social-justice spirit of contemporary higher education includes open denunciation of people at the higher end of the socioeconomic spectrum. They have long made up the lion’s share of families paying full tuition, shouldering a disproportionate part of the work of making higher education economically feasible.
I have heard that denunciatory sentiment expressed dozens of times on my campus by faculty members. Wealthy students, and especially wealthy white students, are described as an unwieldy burden on the new mission of higher education, which is, of course, social justice. These “privileged brats” too often chafe under ideological programming designed to make them feel responsibility for things that happened before their birth. They take up spaces that might be more fruitfully given to students from “historically disadvantaged groups,” who can be counted on to be more amenable to indoctrination given their reliance on a system of redistribution for their presence on college campuses.
No opportunity is missed to paint the full-tuition students (and their parents) as reactionary enemies of the new calling of higher education. The critics seldom consider the economics of removing students who pay the full ticket and replacing them with others who rely heavily on financial aid.
The stupidification and politicization of our standards and curricula are part of the effort, alluded to by Grawe, to bring in a broader spectrum of students. (Sadly, he doesn’t name it for what it is.) On this topic, almost no one wants to talk about the obvious fact that standardized tests are not the only thing that will have to go. Traditional grading systems, in which only a minority of students achieve excellence and the majority by definition do average work, are also an impediment
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Our “colleges” and “universities” are nothing more than expensive whorehouses these days. A place for Student Loan Deadbeats to go to party and spend the taxpayers’ money.
Go survive 4 years fighting with whackadoos trying to indoctrinate me to get 100K of debt, or go to a trade school for 2 years or less and make as much or more money on a job that can’t be offshored....
Gee.. I wonder why enrollment is down
Many schools have always had that distinction. Known as "party schools", they've always had low standards with minimal academic expectations.
Even colleges that didn't fit into that category had programs tailor made for slackers. Kids majoring in education, history, psychology, et al. Gravy courses with no purpose other than to enable the kid to avoid the draft.
all jobs should remain if the merger goes through
Doesn't sound like just desserts to me...
Higher education by and large is the epicenter of societal collapse. Stave the beast.
Excellent article.
I can see Socrates now. “Bring in the disadvantaged yokels.”
My local community college was only $450 per semester when I went to school.
My college was $3,500 a semester. That was considered pricey at the time.
Now it is something like $35,000 a semester.
I can’t, I have to watch my team, and pay my coach millions of dollars a year.
I sent two of my five kids to Bucknell. College, not just that college, is a scam. It cost about $300,000 to send a kid through Bucknell now. Outside of the non-stop party, you learn nothing that Google couldn’t teach you. Sent another kid to Hopkins. A chemical engineer, she got out of school and decided that the jobs Chem E.s do are not fun. They are all employed. But they would have been employed anyway. You can send a kid to a boot-camp or trade school. There is nothing college teaches that is worth that kind of time or money.
You think that is easier than getting state legislatures to clean out state colleges & universities by defunding positions and departments?
Private schools with the exception of the big Ivys and a few others can stew in their own juices.
They went after big pharma because junkies misused their legal products. Perhaps they should go after big academia for the student loan issue. It certainly isn’t a matter for taxpayers to pay.
“.... go to a trade school for 2 years or less...”
I wholeheartedly agree yet some trade schools have gone bonkers over online “training” vs traditional “hands-on” training and will unfortunately find out the hard way that traditional hands-on education wins every time. Some people just gotta reinvent the wheel for whatever reason.
So white males will be blue collar workers and go into old age with arthritis and all kinds of problem while the woke masses are white collar and retire early from the 100% climate controlled work places? Is that the plan?
I know of electricians making over $125/hour now.
There will always be outliers.
That’s a given. But then what? Same structure that will be susceptible to the same type of corruption. Why not shake up the structure after that? We need some new ideas that shake out the bureaucratic rug. These institutions’ corruption started in earnest in the last century by the humanist philosopher John Dewey. His papers on education being structured as a “place to learn how to live” inevitably was followed up with, “education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction”. This occurs in stages, from early ed to college. And it has now led to the utter ideological corruption of the whole structure. We’ve made inroads in the early stages with proper home schooling. But the structure needs to be burned down.
It introduced a new term, “stupidification.”
A good one at that.
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