Stanford used to be the best college on the west coast.
Graduate from it in high tech and would eventually be a CEO.
It is now just a shadow of what it once was.
30 years of DIE killed it.
I don’t think ‘Harvard’ really cares. They (those who run it) have a $50 billion dollar plus endowment portfolio.
Glad I got to see it. I guess we’ll be seeing a lot fewer of those “I Go To Harvard” sweat shirts.
If someone challenges us as being homophobic we can just say "Oh, we aren't referring to people with homosexual orientation, we are referring to that phony who ran Harvard."
Excllent!, ... Couldn't happen to a more deserving skewl.
(Tip o' the hat to Rush)
The military sucks the big one today but I wouldnt trade any part of my career for 2 or 3 Harvard degrees on anything. I felt that way when I was 16 (and was right) and my dad signed to get me in, and I feel just as strongly about it today(when I have been proven right beyond the shadow of any doubt.)
Once the Ivy League universities became woke, the ‘ivy’ went limp and dead.
But, woke policies and DEI and CRT also took over all other education systems, education became secondary and the country has gone to hell.
But, it all started when the teachers’ unions took over the education systems. It got many times worse when the teachers’ unions came under the control of the democratic party. The progressives in the democrat party have always had the goal of complete control of the population and industry. To achieve their goals, they had to take over the minds of the people starting with early education, which in reality is indoctrination. Indoctrination is the death-knell of the country, and death of the American system of government has been to dream of progressives and liberals and communists.
To recover from what the democrat party has done to the country may take decades, but, perhaps the country is done for.
I’m not sure if it was intentional or not, but Johnson’s use of the titles of Mr. and Ms. for the Harvard presidents certainly is appropriate. Addressing someone with a PhD as Dr. is appropriate ONLY for those that have actually earned the honor. Getting a PhD from Harvard or other buildings (NOT institutions) infused with steaming piles of ESG and DIE, is no indication whatsoever that the holder of such a piece of paper is worthy of the title.
I have an undergrad degree from MIT and a STEM PhD from Harvard. These degrees were obtained years before the leftist takeover of leading US institutions.
STEM PhDs are worth a lot, because they are awarded for original laboratory research, and typically result in peer-reviewed publications in leading scientific journals.
Some humanities and a few (economics, some anthropology) social science PhDs are also worth a lot. “Ethnic studies” degrees are at best worthless, and in some cases are pure poison!
Most Harvard (and MIT, etc.) alums got their degrees years before the far-left takeover of these institutions. We yearn for the renewal of the excellence of our alma maters!
And we cannot understand how antisemitism became so strong at leading universities, when it seemed back then that many Jews were in charge! Putting an anti-israel Jew like Penslar at the head of the “antisemitism committee” also is something that is hard to understand.
Lord have Mercy!
The Harvard motto- Veritas. Latin for truth.
Re: several mentions about Stanford University.
DemocRAT favorite is divide, divide, divide. They just love finding more and more ways to divide us up, and then pit one group against another. They are, after all, the party of segregation and the KKK.
Stanford University, while touting and celebrating ‘diversity’ has developed segregated housing: Ujamaa House is for African-American; Okada House is for Asians; Casa Zapata is for Chicanx and Latinx (99% of Spanish speakers do not like the new Latinx phraseology, and they do not speak Latin either).
The Stanford University website explains: “”Our ethnic theme communities have a rich and long history of engaging students at the highest levels of intellectual discovery and advancing diversity””
‘Advancing diversity’ by segregation. Sounds right out of 1984.
If I owned a corporation, I would only hire Israelis from Harvard.
Harvard did not fire Claudine Gay. Her plagiarism was not considered a firing offense. So much for Harvard’s current “academic excellence.”