Posted on 04/24/2024 5:13:32 AM PDT by CFW
The recent wave of violent protests and arrests at elite universities like Yale and Columbia have only confirmed for Scott Katz that he made the right decision to attend Elon University. The North Carolina college, where he is currently wrapping up his sophomore year, is a long way from his hometown of Lafayette Hill, the predominantly liberal Philadelphia suburb where the average home costs $610,000.
Katz, who is Jewish, says the antisemitism that’s increasingly visible at colleges nationwide—especially in the Ivy League, and other elite institutions like Stanford and Berkeley—hasn’t even touched his campus.
“I haven’t been affected by it at all,” Katz told me. “I definitely feel very safe on campus regarding my religion.”
He notes that Elon was one of only two universities in the country to get an A grade from the Anti-Defamation League for its policies protecting Jewish students against hate. (The other is Brandeis.) According to the ADL ranking, Elon has seen zero “severe antisemitic and anti-Zionist incidents” and zero “hostile anti-Zionist student groups.”
“It was a big deal,” Katz says of the level of comfort he feels on campus.
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Uhgg. "were ever". Word wrap gets me every time.
“IMHO, kids should pick a career before picking college. Talk to people already in that career, and ask them if college training is helpful and, if so, what degrees from what colleges are good.”
Good idea. Also, many employers would prefer to hire someone from a small southern or mid-west college that has a proven record of producing graduates knowledgeable in a certain field rather than someone with a degree from a well-known university.
College is a waste of time and money unless one is learning a marketable skill or fulfilling a graduate school requirement like medical or law school.
I was (in my former life) responsible for hiring some people. Knowing what I now know, seeing one of the Ivy League colleges on a resume would be a red flag for me. I don’t want to work with “woke” people. Good thing for “them” I’m retired now.
I didn’t know that Elon Musk opened a university. Perhaps one dedicated to STEM without woke crap would be a good idea.
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