Posted on 07/18/2005 5:33:24 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
As a counterpoint, what should conservatives now do to take advantage of this situation?
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
People want to blame tenure. That's dumb. I can do without tenure, but that isn't what's causing the drift. As Richard Vetter shows in "Going Broke by Degree," the problem is that 60% or MORE of college students now are on some sort of "aid" which is really just redistribution of the entire pool of money. So students pay (in reality) $17,000, get "rebates" or aid of $7-10,000, and think they are getting a deal, when in reality the education only COSTS $7,000, and if you got rid of all the administrative departments that are engaged in a) recruitment and b) redistribution, you'd HAVE a college ed. for $7,000-10,000, i.e., one that is affordable to almost any students.
The lefts values are whatever their internal polling TELLS them they should be.
Start referring to the university-employed leftists as the "leftwing establishment" and the lefty students as the mind-numbed stooges of the leftwing establishment.
and if you got rid of all the administrative departments that are engaged in a) recruitment and b) redistribution,
Don't forget the cost of diversification. Diversification is the goal of every college president, not excellence!
My son will be a college freshman this fall, majoring in theater. At orientation, the first club he sought out and joined was the Young Republicans.
Students should record every word spoken by every professor they encounter in person or in lecture.
As for this: “Cain said, ‘am I my brother’s keeper?’ ‘You bet your ass,’ God said.”
I gather he's not using the King James version?
I went to a private college that currently charges $36,000 for tuition, room and board. This is a college that produces more future PhDs per capita than all but two other colleges in the country. In my humble opinion, the expense is worth it because of the extraordinary opportunity for learning that exists at a college with a traditional great-books curriculum and a serious, intellectual culture. And it happens that at least half the students at this college have financial aid, often lots of it (I certainly did in my day).
However -- you can get a decent education for < $4,000 a year (tuition) where I hold tenure as an associate professor of math, a regional campus of a well-known public university. You're on your own to seek out the degree programs with real content and substance (we offer plenty of content-free fluff degrees such as the dreaded "bachelors in general studies" that hundreds of our students opt for). But we do have quality programs taught by professors who love learning and teaching.
Coservatives should laugh loud, long and publicly.
If one really thinks about what has been happening on our nations campuses for 37 years, one knows that our halls of liberal academe asre nothing if not "utopian." The world they year forn does not exist and never will.
These academics are not teaching learners. They are teaching "YEARNERS". They do such a good job of indoctriantion that our nations culture wars are too energetic, and may one day lead to our nations second civil war.
Or posted on FreeRepublic.
Evidence. Sue the professor for non-performance.
Hey, it's about as relevant as the leftwing indoctrination garbage that passes for higher education these days!!
Bring on Professors Howard, Fine, and Howard!
Yep. Our deans have grown threefold in 20 years, and the number of provosts---one specifically dedicated to "student needs" has gone up fivefold.
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