Colleges being hurt financially?!
Who said there is no silver lining?
Doesn’t bode well for math and science, but gender studies should be OK.
Here is the REAL education taking place. Liberal college professors are now learning Economics 101 at a very personal level. Shut down the economy of the United States and you shut down the liberal gravy train funding the Leftist utopia.
University of Wisconsin-Madison/Endowment
3.15 billion USD
Anyone want to bet that the classes and departments dropped will be the one that are useful and that will get a student a PAYING job?
Watch, engineering classes will be gone, real math will be gone but “ethnic math” will stay, hard physics and computer engineer and programming will be replaced by data entry training. After all we can always hire foreigners to do the real hard technical work. No wait, I forgot that we train them all here too!
Here is the REAL education taking place. Liberal college professors are now learning Economics 101 at a very personal level. Shut down the economy of the United States and you shut down the liberal gravy train funding the Leftist utopia.
The government does not create wealth. Individual and business efforts create wealth.
Academia needs to do this worldwide. We no longer need Womyn studies.
And get rid of 95% of diversity/EEO/grievance pimp administrators.
1st cut - Easy:
Lop off any departments, courses, and positions that have the words “studies”, “diversity” or “multicultural” in their descriptions.
2nd cut:
Reduce staffing at Colleges of Education, if not close them completely. People need to get a real degree first, let them qualify to teach by a year-long apprenticeship at a K-12 school.
3rd Cut
Think return-on-state-taxpayer-investment!
Start with liberal arts, humanities and social sciences; examine the ROI from graduates with these degrees. Does the state need as many that they are currently producing.
Make these numbers: Expected salaries, time from graduation to first job in the field, job taken in-state or out-of-state all publicly available (Put it in the “So You Want To Go To State U” packet to parents of perspective students & perspective students.
4th Cut:
Reduce law school staffing! We currently have a national glut of lawyers.
Ohio University cut several people from the Gender/Black studies dept. and twitter did not take that well.
“The only guarantee he could offer was each campus will continue to offer basics such as English and math that undergraduates need to earn a diploma.”
Shouldn’t they have learned Standard English and basic math in High School?
Rhetorical question....
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He’ll start with non-tenured teachers, employees of the ag extension sites, and a few bureaucrats in obscure support programs.
If he takes on tenured faculty and diversity hires, he’ll be gone by August.
Hallelujah!! That is the most sensible thing I have a heard university president say in thirty or more years.
He’s probably a flaming liberal speaking like a conservative without knowing.