Posted on 04/30/2025 5:28:25 AM PDT by karpov
Universities are currently experiencing a full-blown assault from the federal government and from red-state politicians. Tired of subsidizing universities as a hotbed of ideological activism, Republican leaders are cutting budgets, forcing reorganizations, asserting control of university governance, and taking control of the general-education curriculum at state universities.
Republicans have generally been more skeptical of generous funding of public education, including at the postsecondary level, but this is different. According to Gallup, 56 percent of Republicans in 2015 had a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education. In 2024, only 20 percent of Republicans did, and 50 percent had “very little” or no confidence in higher education. In that time, support for higher education has also dropped among independents (from 48 percent to 35 percent) and even Democrats (from 68 percent to 56 percent).
There are multiple reasons for the loss of confidence in higher education, but the most common reason given in the Gallup poll was that universities have become too politicized. Given the ideological bent of university faculty and administrators, this politicization is almost always in favor of leftist causes. This makes Republican legislators, governors, and the current White House administration question why they should use tax dollars to subsidize their political enemies.
Quite frankly, universities have brought this crisis of confidence—and the attendant reductions in funding and independence—on themselves. For the past generation, universities have become not just more politically left-wing but actively hostile to the Right and even centrist thought.
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Why use the phrase “appease the right”? It makes me suspicious of their motives.
Colleges need to co-sign student loans.
No more Parent Plus loans should be issued. The ‘top’ colleges have huge endowments.
We want colleges to provide useful educations to qualified students that enable timely repayment of student loans.
We don’t want to pay for bogus ‘research’.
We don’t want to pay for research ‘overhead’ but only for the marginal costs of indicated research.
We on the right don’t want to be appeased, we want to be pleased.
We had situations where 100% innocent Jewish kids were deprived of the opportunity to improve their lives and American society by masked hoodlums.
The colleges need to fully admit failure and honestly work to provide equal opportunity on campus.
It is a Karpov thread. No need to be suspicious of the motives.
The educational system has been an assault on family, religious values for decades. Time there was a flip.
The way to get more Whites on University faculties is to hire STRICTLY on the basis or merit.
I agree. Or even put up half the money themselves and let students borrow the rest.
Yes, but I'm not holding my breath.
“The way to get more Whites on University faculties is to hire STRICTLY on the basis or merit.”
That would virtually kill most all Arts programs.
“That would virtually kill most all Arts programs.”
Assuming that would be an undesirable outcome, how so? Many Whites are very good at Arts. Art museums are full of art made by whitey.
I really, really screwed this up by being too politically correct.
At the risk of a ban or comment being pulled,
What I really wanted to say was, today if a white man
creates or created something it is assumed to be Crud, just because he is white!
I’m not an expert in how to distinguish races, but visually
going by the amount of melanin in ones skin most successful societies( not all) on Earth are white!
“I really, really screwed this up by being too politically correct. At the risk of a ban or comment being pulled,”
Understood. All you needed to say was “reverse racism”.
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