Posted on 11/23/2023 8:29:46 PM PST by SeekAndFind
TV host Mike Rowe said that eight years ago, he was switching the news channels on his television and saw several college students setting fire to the American flag and dancing around a pile of burning flags. They were telling reporters in interviews they were disgusted with Old Glory and “fearful” of the flag.
“It wasn’t lost on me in the moment that all of these events were happening at what is considered the best of the best elite universities across the country,” Rowe told me. Among supposedly non-elite students, though, the situation wasn’t and isn’t as bad.
Rowe said it didn’t take long for him to figure out why those “elite” students drew those conclusions about Old Glory: The idea of associating fear with the flag came from the very people who were supposed to be instructing these privileged students.
Rowe said the evidence was crystal clear when Jonathan Lash, then the president of Hampshire College, chose not to assure the students that no country offers more liberties to their people and therefore there was nothing to “fear” from the flag. Instead, he spoke up in ways they understood to validate their fears.
“Lash actually removed any traces of the American flag from the campus and said in a statement that removing the flag from the campus ‘will better enable us to focus our efforts on addressing racist, misogynistic, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant, antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and behaviors,'” Rowe explained.
Lash, a former Peace Corps volunteer, federal prosecutor, Harvard graduate, and president of a Washington-based environmental think tank, left the college in 2018. Hampshire College, under Lash in 2015, was one of the first elite schools in the United States not to accept SAT scores from applicants, in part because Lash said SATs were strongly biased against students of color.
Rowe said that if people are shocked by the blatant antisemitism among college students and by the students’ clear lack of understanding of history, they haven’t been paying attention to the ethos of (supposedly) elite universities for at least two generations.
Higher education, for decades, has been trending not liberal but radically left. Phillip Magness and David Waugh wrote earlier this year in the Independent Review that 60% of faculty in universities across this country identified as “hard left.”
Magness and Waugh wrote that while the modal college professor has been at the political left of the public since the 1960s, it wasn’t until very recently that this overall skew obscured an underlying stability in the political composition of faculty.
Their data showed it was in 2001 that faculty majorities went from liberal to hard left and now are nearing a supermajority in the academic world.
It is not lost on Rowe that the two places of higher education where you don’t see campuses erupting in violence and destroying the safety of Jewish students are trade schools and community colleges.
“In 2016, I was feeling very proud to have a scholarship fund that was earmarked for trade schools when everywhere I looked, I saw people burning the flag at elite universities,” Rowe said, adding, “Maybe it happened then, or maybe it is happening now, but I looked, and I couldn’t find a single incident of a trade school or community college burning the American flag.”
“These schools simply don’t go there,” he said of the trade schools and community colleges nationwide whose certificate programs and two-year degrees are designed around filling this country’s skills gap.
The typical financial aid package is huge at Harvard University, in which pro-Palestinian rallies have cost the school financial support from alumni. The total budget for a student this year is $80,600, with federal scholarship amounts set at $64,500.
Over 55% of the students attending Harvard received federal grants or loans.
Rowe said if you want to throw a little gas on the fire of the psyche of the American sitting at home, shaking her head, wondering what these students are up to, “Just remember you’re paying for it.”
The Department of Education tallies show there are nearly 4,000 colleges and universities across this country with 40% of their students holding some type of job while attending school.
In contrast, there are just a little over 1,000 community colleges and 7,407 trade and technical schools as of 2022 with 80% of those students employed while attending school in the former.
Rowe said that when the protests at the elite universities started to unfold after the Oct. 7 massacre, he wondered what seemed so familiar. “And the answer isn’t because it’s familiar in terms of bad behavior. It was familiar because it’s another thing that never happens at schools where people go to learn a skill.”
So true. I love Mike Rowe!
Trade schools are far better than any prestigious university.
“Community Colleges and Trade Schools Are Largely Void of Israel-Hamas Protests”
...and so the SOLUTION to our higher ed system is there for all to see, if we have the COURAGE to push forward with it.
Community colleges and trade schools are places where people who are serious about acquiring work skills go. Colleges, any more, are playgrounds for getting drunk, high, or brainwashed while majoring in some silly unmarketable field.
The Jews in the West have made outsized intellectual contributions over the years. They have earned at least 80 Nobel Prizes, many in the sciences. There are plenty of others whose work is competitive and keep the Nobel prize winners on their toes. The issue is the education of a substantial portion of the Western intellectual elite.
This is not possible in the West under current conditions where our governments have decided to commit political self destruction. This latter is based on ignorance of the history of the Middle East. Other countries have learned about the imperialism from the Middle East at much cost in blood and treasure.
There are high quality international level Universities outside the West where students can do their studies or work on their doctorates. The world is changing, and this is no longer the 1930's where it is the West and nothing else. There are the IIT's (Indian Institutes of Technology) in India, the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, and numerous institutions elsewhere. If Obama's and Biden's minions cannot behave themselves, it might be reasonable to look around for top flight education.
Mike Rowe is right.
Well, this doesn’t quite get to the *reason* why you don’t see protests at cc’s or trade schools.
At a traditional 4 year college you can form student groups and apply for funding from the school for various activities. That doesn’t exist at all at trade schools, and only in an abbreviated fashion at cc’s. Community colleges just don’t have the budgets to disburse free cash to student groups.
So the Muslim Brotherhood targets traditional 4-year schools for their organizing.
Actually, Jews have earned 129 Nobel Prizes:
= most in Physics [54]
= Medicine sciences [44],
= Chemistry,
= etc.
I like Rowe, but he’s wrong about the reason.
Universities and community colleges use the same professors.
The students are the difference. CC students don’t go to CC for fun. They’re hoping for good jobs. The same with trade school students.
... the levels of undocumented funding U.S. institutions of higher learning received from foreign governments in 2014-2019. This is the timeframe used because it is the timeframe covered by U.S. Department of Education.
.... donations from foreign regimes shown.
The institutions that received funding (n=293) cumulatively (from 2014 to 2019) obtained a sum total of $15,763,675,142, (i.e. almost 16 Billions in 4 yrs) from 2014-2019, only....
Table presents the top countries providing these funds, and the top universities receiving them.
COUNTRIES providing the highest levels of undocumented funding to U.S. institutions of higher education:
Qatar $2,706,240,869
England (i.e. via UK banks) $1,464,906,771
China $1,237,952,112
Saudi Arabia $1,065,205,930
Bermuda $899,593,972
United Arab Emirates $431,396,357
U.S. Universities receiving the largest amounts of undocumented funding:
Carnegie Mellon University $1,473,036,665
Cornell University $1,289,433,376
Harvard University $894,533,832
MIT $859,071,692
Texas A&M University $521,455,050
Yale University $495,851,474
Northwestern University $402,316,221
Johns Hopkins University $401,035,647
Georgetown University $379,950,511
University of Chicago (The) $364,544,338
... the levels of undocumented funding U.S. institutions of higher learning received from foreign governments in 2014-2019. This is the timeframe used because it is the timeframe covered by U.S. Department of Education.
.... donations from foreign regimes shown.
The institutions that received funding (n=293) cumulatively (from 2014 to 2019) obtained a sum total of $15,763,675,142, (i.e. almost 16 Billions in 4 yrs) from 2014-2019, only....
Table presents the top countries providing these funds, and the top universities receiving them.
COUNTRIES providing the highest levels of undocumented funding to U.S. institutions of higher education:
Qatar $2,706,240,869
England (i.e. via UK banks) $1,464,906,771
China $1,237,952,112
Saudi Arabia $1,065,205,930
Bermuda $899,593,972
United Arab Emirates $431,396,357
U.S. Universities receiving the largest amounts of undocumented funding:
Carnegie Mellon University $1,473,036,665
Cornell University $1,289,433,376
Harvard University $894,533,832
MIT $859,071,692
Texas A&M University $521,455,050
Yale University $495,851,474
Northwestern University $402,316,221
Johns Hopkins University $401,035,647
Georgetown University $379,950,511
University of Chicago (The) $364,544,338
.
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BERMUDA???
Also community colleges students are different. Some of the students are older, so they know about life. Some of them are still at their parents, as they are trying to get a grip on what college is. I did two years in Community College, loved the experience. Lived at home, worked and went to school.
If it’s undocumented, how are the amounts known down to the nearest dollar?
We have two “Voc-Tech” schools nearby. They are “all business, all the time”. My neice-in-law took cullinary arts there and went right from school to be sous-chef at a lovely restaurant. Now she’s executive chef. My grandnephew is trying hard to get into it for plumbing. They have a hair salon and restaurant onsite to train the kids, and they nearly ALL get good jobs upon graduating. Just sayin’.
“”.... how are the amounts known down to the nearest dollar?””
Probably, due to conversions between currencies.
maybe via banks in Bermuda ...
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