Posted on 10/31/2024 3:40:43 AM PDT by karpov
Ralston College counts among its first graduates a 24-year-old man who, in his third term of study, asked me what he could do to help ensure our fledgling institution would endure for 100 years.
His query deepened a conviction that had guided me for the previous decade as I traveled the world in search of philanthropists and world-class academics to help found a university dedicated to preserving and advancing knowledge: It is what young people want but cannot easily find. Answering their call has been inspiring and, at times, challenging.
While it is a challenge that my colleagues and I intend to meet, our efforts make clear that sustaining a new institution of higher education—even for one year, let alone a century—will rely on two things: a more widespread acknowledgement, first, of the existential danger threatening universities and, second, of the hunger among today’s youth for a space where free inquiry and the pursuit of truth are firmly upheld.
The dozens of business leaders, academics and public intellectuals who have supported Ralston College since its incorporation in 2010 were never more persuaded of its mission than last fall, when several university presidents could not provide Congress with cogent explanations for how they had—or had not—responded to widespread protests on their campuses.
I watched with great interest. Not since the 1950s had the higher-education sector in America been under such keen scrutiny, and indeed such intense suspicion, though it had long deserved to be.
We have had clarion calls from perspicacious critics for more than 70 years: From Bill Buckley’s God and Man at Yale (1951) to Roger Kimball’s Tenured Radicals (1990), we have not lacked for trenchant critique of our colleges and universities.
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Liberal Arts... Useless full indoctrination degrees that gets you a job that pays nothing.
Lawyers can make lots of money.
“Biden briefly played freshman football, and, as an unexceptional student, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 with a double major in history and political science.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
Do you store your garbage cans by a beach house or Greenville mansion?
Meh... My son went to a Liberal Arts school. Hillsdale College in MI. He's now a doctor.
Real Doctor or liberals arts PHD big difference.
So you’re a fan of Biden and have a thing about garbage...
I dunno, does an MD, surgical resident meet your quality threshold?
You obviously don’t know the F’n difference per your response.
Jill Biden wants to called doctor so the title has different meanings. It was a simple question.
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