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Victor Davis Hanson: Universities Have a 2025 Rendezvous With Reality
American Greatness ^ | 28 Nov, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/28/2024 5:15:15 AM PST by MtnClimber

Public confidence in universities has sharply declined due to rising costs, administrative bloat, ideological bias, student debt issues, and discrimination concerns.

Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support.

A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36 percent of Americans polled either expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education—once the agreed-on touchstone to upward mobility.

Gifting to most universities has been down for two consecutive years.

There is zero intellectual diversity on most university campuses.

Speakers with conservative viewpoints are often either disinvited or shouted down—and worse.

The federally guaranteed student loan program is in shambles. Some $1.7 trillion in outstanding loans were taken out by half of all college students.

Nearly a fifth are now not being paid back.

Marriage, child-rearing, and home ownership are all delayed by some 40 million indebted graduates, who can take decades to pay loans back.

The Biden administration demagogued the issue by illegally granting rolling student loan amnesties to win votes just before both the midterm and general elections. That proposed debt relief would be covered by taxpayers, over half of whom never went to college.

The expansion of student loan debt roughly correlates with universities raising their annual costs higher than the rate of inflation—largely due to administrative bloat.

Although the Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of using race and gender to adjudicate applications and hiring, universities are already seeking ways to circumvent the ruling.

Asian- and white-Americans for decades have been systematically, overtly, and supposedly with justification, discriminated against by ignoring or not requiring test scores and downplaying grade point averages.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: academia; education; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 11/28/2024 5:15:15 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Require a class studying the horrors of marxism.


2 posted on 11/28/2024 5:15:54 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 11/28/2024 5:16:20 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Endowments need to be used to repay all of the scam tuition they have been running


4 posted on 11/28/2024 5:35:06 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: MtnClimber

Small Town University is selling its campus to developers to provide luxury retirement housing for its alumni as well as other well-off people looking for a swell retirement.

The funds obtained will be used to buy an underutilized office building in a big city.

This plan will allow the University to have lower maintenance costs and a student body that can live cheaply at home.


5 posted on 11/28/2024 5:35:35 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

Let’s see. Trump takes office in January. The new school year begins 7 months later in August. That would give the entire post K-12 establishment plenty of time to adjust to the new reality-would they? I’m talking about the community colleges becoming trade schools. 4 year universities giving out degrees in 3 years, thereby getting rid of bullshit required courses. Then there’s the taxpayers paying for only those STEM courses and forcing the student to pay for the other(useless) stuff.

18 year olds will not be ready to take on a full time job even if the HS teaches them a skilled trade. They’ll at least be ready.


6 posted on 11/28/2024 5:40:34 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MtnClimber

It’s WAY overdue


7 posted on 11/28/2024 5:41:33 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: ronnie raygun

WIKI

Endowments greater than $1 billion

Private schools
1 Harvard University Massachusetts $49.495 [billion]
....
82 Denison University Ohio $1.002 [billion]

Public schools
1 University of Texas System Texas $44.96 [billion]
....
53 Clemson University South Carolina $1.027 [billion]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment

Perhaps the universities should invest in their students and the federal government should stop issuing loans.


8 posted on 11/28/2024 5:42:34 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

“...Gifting to most universities has been down for two consecutive years...”

Gee... I wonder why?


9 posted on 11/28/2024 5:44:12 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


10 posted on 11/28/2024 5:50:15 AM PST by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

“Asian- and white-Americans for decades have been systematically, overtly, and supposedly with justification, discriminated against by ignoring or not requiring test scores and downplaying grade point averages.”

Maybe some rich Silicon Valley titans should start STEM colleges. I would think that only civil engineering would require accreditation, so such programs might be started in future years.


11 posted on 11/28/2024 5:55:56 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Musk University?


12 posted on 11/28/2024 5:58:17 AM PST by maro (MAGA!)
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To: SMARTY

There’s more. K-12 confined to the three R’s. School will be in session for 3 hours. AM or PM. The rest of the day could be spent on the trades, exercise, music-whatever interests the student. Plenty of time to do homework. Three 12 hour shifts at a local McJob on the weekends(Fri./Sat./Sun).

It teaches them the value of a dollar and most important instills a desire to get on with their lives, especially when it comes to saving. Throw in a $1k ROTH IRA upon birth(no withdrawal) and let them watch it grow. By the time they’re on their own they’ll know what the deals in life.

Physical Ed. Anybody remember how many were just not into it? For them it may have been music or just not being into athletics or competitive sports. I don’t think it made any difference in their physical well being. It’s about control. 3 hours a day will fix it.


13 posted on 11/28/2024 5:58:49 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MtnClimber

Universities need DOGE, or DOUE!

They are so bloated!

Most of the teaching is done by graduate students and so called adjunct professors, both paid subminimum wages.

Professors mostly see themselves above teaching, or in worst case teaching just graduate level courses.

Universities are filled with paper pushing administrators, who spend most of the money on themselves.

Like most leftists, they like to talk about helping people, but they, in reality, skim those poor souls mercilessly!


14 posted on 11/28/2024 5:59:08 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: Brian Griffin

The universities should be required to co-sign any federal or federally insured student loans.


15 posted on 11/28/2024 6:01:56 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: cgbg

cgbg-U got that right.


16 posted on 11/28/2024 6:06:42 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: SMARTY

I have a list of institutions, I would NEVER give a penny!
Universities are on top of it, together with all those fraudulent charities.


17 posted on 11/28/2024 6:08:52 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: cgbg

The universities should be required to co-sign any federal or federally insured student loans.

__________________

Here is a suggestion for Musk!


18 posted on 11/28/2024 6:11:00 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: DIRTYSECRET

If the universities were on the hook for the student loans the first thing they would probably do is have Dave Ramsey-type courses required for all students in the first year.

If students flunked the course they would be booted out of college—the schools would not want financially illiterate students threatening the solvency of their institution.


19 posted on 11/28/2024 6:12:28 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: MtnClimber

Nearly a fifth are now not being paid back.

They shouldn’t be granted another loan of any type until they pay their debt is paid off.

Example must be made


20 posted on 11/28/2024 6:22:31 AM PST by Vaduz
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