Posted on 05/02/2024 3:45:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Politicized faculty, infantilized students, and mediocre classes have combined to erode the prestige of college degrees, even at once elite colleges.
Elite higher education in America—long unquestioned as globally preeminent—is facing a perfect storm. Fewer applicants, higher costs, impoverished students, collapsing standards, and increasingly politicized and mediocre faculty reflect a collapse of the university system.
The country is waking up to the reality that a bachelor’s degree no longer equates with graduates being broadly educated and analytical. Just as often, they are stereotyped as pampered, largely ignorant, and gratuitously opinionated.
No wonder polls show a drastic loss of public respect for higher education and, specifically, a growing lack of confidence in the professoriate.
Each year, there are far fewer students entering college. Despite a U.S. population 40 million larger than 20 years ago, fertility rates have fallen in two decades by some 500,000 births per year.
Meanwhile, from 1980 to 2020, room, board, and tuition increased by 170 percent.
Skyrocketing costs cannot be explained by inflation alone, given that campuses have lightened faculty teaching loads while expanding administrative staff. At Stanford, there is nearly one staffer or administrative position for every student on campus.
At the same time, to vie for a shrinking number of students, colleges began offering costly in loco parentis counseling, Club Med-style dorms and accommodations, and extracurricular activities.
As applicants grew scarcer and expenses went up, universities began offering “full-service” student-aid packages, heavily reliant on government-subsidized student loans. The collective indebtedness of over 40 million student borrowers is nearing $2 trillion.
Worse still, an entire new array of therapeutic majors and minors appeared in the social sciences. Most of these gender/race/environmental courses did not emphasize analytical, mathematical, or oral and written skills. Such course work did not impress employers.
Faculty hiring had become increasingly non-meritocratic
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The universities did this to themselves. I have no sympathy.
Correct. They went full retard.
Meanwhile...
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
JUST IN: The frat boys who held up the American flag at UNC and told a pro-Palestine protester to lose some weight have had $270,000 raised for them to throw a rager.
Epic 🇺🇸
In just one day, the boys are narrowing in on $300,000 and have even received a $10,000 donation from billionaire Bill Ackman.
“We are overwhelmed by you glorious, Patriotic Americans who value good beer and great times. We are in contact with multiple leaders from fraternities whose members helped defend the flag, including Alpha Epsilon Pi and others, in addition to Pi Kappa Psi,” an update on the page read.
Well deserved.
10:12 PM · May 1, 2024
It seems most everything in society has been trashed by the Liberal Marxist. Their destruction and attempted redo/rewrite of ‘normal’ is largely complete. How this era will be recorded in history should be interesting and will any of the old cherished traditions remain?
Why should they. Time to ELIMINATE them, the admin AND the students. I hope the graduates NEVER get a job.
They might improve if all the broke graduates sue for refunds.
Yes, switch to live rounds and body bags.
Strong stupid deserves stinging strong medicine
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40 years ago, my community college courses were more rigorous than when I went to University. Even my Master Course 12 years ago wasn't as as tough as community college.
It looks like self-sabotage.
Revoke the academic accreditation of these D.I.E. woketardian universities. Investigate the accreditation organizations that do not do this.
The best career path is to avoid college, avoid the indoctrination, avoid the debt.
Our society needs to rethink college and stop believing that people must be dumb if they didn’t graduate with a degree. It should not be a requirement for a job.
On The Job training is superior.
It’s possible that engineering and medicine might require study at a university. But those are exceptions.
In my opinion, college is what stupid people do when they’re 18. On-going informal education at the community level makes more sense. If you like Russian literature, find people around you or on-line who want to talk about it. Make it a hobby. Build a network of like-minded people. Do It Yourself.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
These "students" have all the prestige they will ever need - they are your future rulers.
You need college to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer. The rest is a waste.
People need to realize that there is a large sector of the populace that works at less than nothing - college administrators, professors who teach all of two courses a semester often about something close to nothing, the nonprofits which are very profitable. When the economy comes falling down, so will they and most of them have no marketable skills, don’t know how to work hard, and expect a cushy life subsidized by the taxpayers and the endowments of rich people. Time will not be kind to them and they may experience the poverty they are always screaming about.
"From the inside, the majority of us are reasonable, but cowards. Most are liberal, but not crazy. And when you get them away from campus and drinks are flowing, they'll be the first to agree with you on the Marxist nonsense.
Nevertheless, higher ed administration is now dominated by white women who are very, very progressive and who are filled with white guilt. (I never said this, I'll deny if you say I did. lol)
When people think of admin, they only focus on the President's office, but the majority of decisions are made at the Dean's level, where white women are dominating. And these women love to bring in DEI experts because they love to show how they are advocates/allies. Oh, they are obsessed with everything gay, to the point that they likely have a transgender or nonbinary child, it's super common.
To make matters worse, the universities have promoted diversity within STEM and in Business and Law through hires of DEI officers and faculty who teach sociological courses that are critical of whatever STEM field is at issue. So now, you can't even avoid those "critical" propagandists in the medical school. They are everywhere.
That's why I applauded DeSantis when he passed that bill. Nobody needs DEI officers. And they are paid so high.
Fortunately, Southern schools are not completely lost and our students are far more grounded than those up north. But we are safe (for now) because of our students, not our faculty. That's why other states are starting to move in Florida's direction with regard to DEI. And God bless them."
Hmmm, when the left wing idiots finally blow up some colleges, we might consider rewarding them for removing parts of our civilization that would best be removed.
And the plagiarism many professors and administrators have been found to engage in is massive and only a miniscule amount of it has been exposed.
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