Do the “learned” professors admit to their own scamming of thousands of students of uncounted thousands of dollars in tuitions in order to obtain a worthless degree in fields that never did have any jobs in their future.
There are tens of thousands of “graduates” roaming the streets unable to get employment in their field, for the simple fact there NEVER was a job to be had.
A prospective employer asks, “What do you know?” The answer is, “Everything there is to know about nothing worthwhile”
A prospective employer then asks, “So what can you actually DO?”. The answer, tragically, “NOTHING. But I want a job.”
A professor...a person collecting a high salary, to be capped with a large pension, with absolute security in his/ her own employment, while vilifying those who make it possible.
Bernie Maddof is/was a piker in comparison.
Doubtless most of the professors who signed this are in “useless” fields, but I wouldn’t be too down on Penn: it’s the home to a very good College of Engineering, to the Wharton School, to a very good medical school (whose hospital system runs one of the major HMOs in the Delaware Valley), and to a major biomedical research facility, the Wistar Institute.
And, it put its endowment where its “social justice” urges are, first redeveloping a huge swath of West Philadelphia (and Penn’s campus police are real police and supplement the Philly cops in a big area around the campus), then making a point of hiring people who grew up in West Philadelphia for service jobs, creating a program to encourage them continue living in the neighborhood by subsidizing purchases of redeveloped homes (I know this from talking to the computer tech in the math dept. last time I was back visiting), and establishing a program to give a free ride (paid out of its endowment) to any kids from poor families in West Philly that meet the admissions criterion. (Part of the reason that it can still afford to do that is the fact that so much of its endowment was not in the market, but invested in West Philadelphia redevelopment, which turned out to be a much better investment even on purely financial grounds.)