Posted on 11/30/2024 5:30:06 AM PST by george76
Attacks on free speech at Stanford University in recent years are emblematic of the problems colleges across the country are facing
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Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support.
only 36% 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.
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The Biden administration .. 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.
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Hoover Institution scholar Scott Atlas in 2020 was censured by the Stanford faculty...
subsequent events supported Atlas’ prescient warning that a complete lockdown of the country and shutdown of K-12 schools would not only not retard the COVID epidemic, but would cause far greater economic, social, cultural and health damage than the virus itself.
Two recent attempts to lift that censure failed — in part because some faculty claimed that to do so would empower Donald Trump’s reelection bid
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The SAT entrance exam is returning to many campuses and is still appreciated as crucial to most universities’ applications.
A number of partisan elite college presidents have resigned in disgrace.
So, hope springs eternal, even if it may be too little, too late.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Bkmk
The next 4 years will be interesting.
An interesting announcement...if true. But food won't be cheap and housing anywhere in Greater Boston is damn expensive. I live in a condo complex almost an hour (by train) from Cambridge and a neighbor just told me that they're paying $1,900 a month for a one bedroom.
I am a university graduate of many years ago. Today, I support the complete dismantling of American universities as un-American centers of hate and intolerance. They are disgusting propaganda centers and the worst possible places to send our young people. Destroy them and the USA will be much better for it.
This whole bloat started in the late 60s when higher education became the “safe space” for young men avoiding the draft. Many got totally meaningless degrees in subjects devoid of useful or marketable skills. Many ended up as potters, weavers and woodworkers…not that there is anything wrong with manual labor and skilled labor, but a college degree to do it???
The debris from the late 60s took over higher education and have nearly destroyed it in their idealogical warfare against the Constitution and Republic. The best we can hope for is that the new interest in the trades will choke off the infection and cull the academic bloat and leftist infection and leave higher education smaller and better serving.
I agree with you on Trades, and I own a specialized service based business for 50 plus years now and make way more than most College Grads will ever see.
Higher education... The majority of these institutions are where idiots pay to become dumber.
Perhaps:
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.
College is a scam whereby far left loons with useless Doctorate degrees have figured out how to be highly paid. These fools could not exist beyond the campus. Without academia, they would have been forced to find a real profession in order to survive.
In order to pay these fools their ever increasing salaries, tuition must skyrocket the cost of which is borne partially by the taxpayer in the form of government backed loans.
Out tax dollars are spent subsidizing the agents of indoctrination.
A friend went to Princeton and outside of science classes most of it was just fluff according to her.
The universities that became leftist cesspools have stunk for years.Now the stench is overwhelming the leftist air fresheners.
Time wounds all heels.
The universities that became leftist cesspools have stunk for years.Now the stench is overwhelming the leftist air fresheners.
Time wounds all heels.
I got into an argument with a woman on Fakebook who had a masters degree in racial studies from UCLA. She argued that the China flue was racist. I explained that it was not racist since China was a country and Chinese were Asians and that Asian was the race.
I looked at here profile and told here one of her statements was racist on here profile. She told me it was not because you can’t be racist to white people. That is when she told me what her degrees was in and where it was from. Then she asked me what I went to school for. I told her I went to college for chemical engineering you know a useful degree. I also told her if she came in with that degree there is no way I would hire you.
She got all huffy and reported me to Fakebook. At which point the erased the conversation thread. Well that ended my week on Fakebook.
This is the garbage they want us to pay for with their loan forgiveness. A totally useless degree in a useless field.
One bedroom apts are popular with students today because “my mental health”. That drives up the price.
Yes,I know that there are “studios”...but I’ll bet they’re not much cheaper. Sometimes I like to watch youtube videos of people living in microscopic apartments in NYC and Tokyo. I suppose it can be nice to live in midtown Manhattan for $600 a month...but when it’s a small place that’s you’re living room,your bedroom,your kitchen *and* your bathroom I’m not sure that I’d like it.
Brookline’s a lot closer to Cambridge (and Boston) than I am. Brookline is nice because it’s close to everything and yet you can get a real “suburbs” experience there.
True that. They are very proud of the way they invalidate everything parents have taught their children, Take any one of then off that campus environment and they would be a mark for the first con that spots them
Give me a couple dollars, dump me in downtown NY, and I’d be having drinks in the Rainbow Room within the hour
Drop one of them in downtown NW with a couple dollars and you’ll find them cut up in pieces in someone’s trunk
Telling the truth is about as hateful as it gets.
Lol.
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