Some of this is due to the fallout from SJW and their collaborators holding professor and administrator positions. When SJW’s and liberal arts professors spout “Math is racist”, “Science is a social construct”, shouting down those who disagree in the least, beginning to infect the STEM fields, and otherwise act like the lunatics from Mao’s Cultural Devolution, of course this is going to affect funding for state supported universities. The question asked by Middle America (flyover country, deplorables, and any other epithet the elites hurl at “normals”) is “why should we fund this crap?” And people really started to take notice with the antics of Melissa Click.
Fred Hayek: Still a genius after all these many decades.
The report says that the decline in funding started in 2008, at the end of the Bush administration and recession due to overspending and a general lack of self-control at the federal level.
Nut what about the states’ pigging out on federal funds, refusing to curb excessive union pension plans, Free This, Free That, etc? Not to mention political corruption at every level of state governments.
The allowing of a major influx of Marxist, anti-white, black racist, Proud Chicana professors, and Climategate lunatics, all contributed to the downward spiral of the American university. This includes fraudulent research in the area of drugs, climate/environment, social issues, the family, etc. and the deconstruction of the Great Literature courses that taught students how to write well, read well, and speak well.
Pres. Bush didn’t do this. Pres. Trump hasn’t done it. So who is LEFT in between who supported his crap? Obama - BINGO - you win a Nobel Prize for common sense.
Once Obama attacked the police re the Prof. Gates mixup, it was open season on the men and women in Blue, law enforcement in general, and societal order specifically.
Ferguson, Baltimore, Philly, NY, Chicago, Berkeley, Portland, Seattle, etc. - where the Marxist and anarchist Left was given a green light to go ahead and attack not only the police, but schools, religion, laws, personal responsibility, and America.
While college administrators have for many schools turned out to be wussies, cowards, and fools, it was personified in Pres. Obama who made being a fool, a coward, a racist, an covert Islamist, and a Marxist traitor into a national standard.
Higher education needs a thorough cleaning, like an atomic bomb on the proverbial “swamp” of incompetence, cowardice and stupidity, while American politics in general needs another enema bigger than the Trump victory.
Some universities deserve to die because they are now the bastions of Marxism, racism, class hatred, and overpaid Castros, Maos, HOs, Stalins and Putins (any Islamic mullah-wannabes) who teach this leftist, anti-Christian, anti-Judaism, anti-American crap 24/7 to young, poorly brought up American youth.
It is time that ZOMBIELAND, aka the American university either be cleaned up and out, or thrown on the trash heap of Lysenkenian “education” once and for all.