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Victor Davis Hanson: Can The Current Universities Be Saved?
American Greatness ^ | 2 May, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 05/02/2024 3:45:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 05/02/2024 3:45:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The universities did this to themselves. I have no sympathy.


2 posted on 05/02/2024 3:45:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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Correct. They went full retard.


3 posted on 05/02/2024 3:49:40 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: MtnClimber

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


4 posted on 05/02/2024 3:55:38 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: MtnClimber

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?


5 posted on 05/02/2024 3:59:18 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: MtnClimber

Why should they. Time to ELIMINATE them, the admin AND the students. I hope the graduates NEVER get a job.


6 posted on 05/02/2024 3:59:56 AM PDT by Singermom
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They might improve if all the broke graduates sue for refunds.


7 posted on 05/02/2024 4:00:39 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes, switch to live rounds and body bags.
Strong stupid deserves stinging strong medicine


8 posted on 05/02/2024 4:10:02 AM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t coun)
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9 posted on 05/02/2024 4:11:44 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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All these realities explain why teenagers increasingly opt for trade schools, vocational education, and community colleges.

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.

10 posted on 05/02/2024 4:17:24 AM PDT by occamrzr06
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And they did them to themselves at the very time when AI platforms and the internet are getting ready to replace them.

It looks like self-sabotage.

11 posted on 05/02/2024 4:18:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: Sirius Lee

Revoke the academic accreditation of these D.I.E. woketardian universities. Investigate the accreditation organizations that do not do this.


12 posted on 05/02/2024 4:39:22 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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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.


13 posted on 05/02/2024 4:51:23 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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have combined to erode the prestige of college degrees, even at once elite colleges

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

These "students" have all the prestige they will ever need - they are your future rulers.

14 posted on 05/02/2024 4:55:15 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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You need college to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer. The rest is a waste.


15 posted on 05/02/2024 4:59:47 AM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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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.


16 posted on 05/02/2024 5:04:57 AM PDT by laconic
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Here is what a friend of mine who is a fairly reasonable old school "liberal" and who teaches at a major Southern university said to me about this subject. I'll share it without revealing his identity:

"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."

17 posted on 05/02/2024 5:05:31 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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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.


18 posted on 05/02/2024 5:07:33 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Go to just about any high school principals office and you'll see an office comparable to a fortune 500 CEOs office. Why? The administrative state has been rewarding itself more and more for decades. They really believe they deserve their huge professorship salaries.

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.

19 posted on 05/02/2024 5:39:04 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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ping


20 posted on 05/02/2024 5:39:50 AM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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