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The Decline of the Midwest's Public Universities Threatens to Wreck Its Most Vibrant Economies
The Atlantic ^ | 10/15/2017 | JON MARCUS

Posted on 10/15/2017 6:17:54 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity

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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

There are a lot of very rich guys who graduated from The Ohio State University. They are welcome to donate their millions to the research programs. Most choose to donate their $$ to the Football team...


41 posted on 10/15/2017 8:31:13 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Universities are dangerous neighborhoods. Who wants their children to be rape and homicide victims?


42 posted on 10/15/2017 8:32:17 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: x; GodAndCountryFirst
GodAndCountryFirst wrote:
"What would happen once government schools went away?"

x replied:
"Jobs would move overseas and crime would go way up."

Maybe some companies do prefer to see public schools instead of private schools in employee backgrounds. If so, it's time for some research and a review and update of some boycott lists and tax policies.

Freepers, support the President's tax plans and trade plans. Then, demand tax action on renegade, anti-American companies, and demand public education spending cuts.


43 posted on 10/15/2017 8:48:39 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Endowments:

Ohio State:
3.579 billion USD

Michigan:
9.7 billion USD

Michigan State:
3 billion USD

University of Illinois:
3.3 billion USD


44 posted on 10/15/2017 8:53:35 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: hinckley buzzard

How about getting rid of the anti-white, anti-men, anti-American professors. NOT ONE would be missed.


45 posted on 10/15/2017 9:23:57 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Open up the alumni funds...those usually have hundreds of millions of $$$.

My alumni will never get a penny from me. That is atheists’ church.


48 posted on 10/16/2017 2:36:27 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (The Left's family value: 'The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!' (Che Guevara, 1961))
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Propaganda factories that produce snowflakes and radical anarchists, no education there
49 posted on 10/16/2017 2:50:25 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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No joke. As an undergrad, my U’s administrative offices treated me like total garbage. Even the 3-4 times over the years that I called them because I needed a password reset because I need a transcript, the woman treated me like something that scurried under the sink until she asks what year I will be graduating, I tell her I GRADUATED in 1999, I’m sure the computer shows that I’m an older guy that is fresh pickings since I’ve donated NOTHING to them, and suddenly the cranky witch puts her smooth boss on the phone and it’s all, “Yes sir, anything you need sir, give me your address and I’ll personally make it happen yesterday, sir,” talking too high and too fast like somebody has a gun to his head. It’s like, “Oh s#!+, he’s not a student, he’s alumni!!!!!” Should I feel flattered or concerned that I sound 23 years old on the phone?

When these people call me up asking for money, I just laugh and laugh...


50 posted on 10/17/2017 8:18:52 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: familyop

And the ballplayers, the biggest offenders, always get away with no-show community service and probation after the coach pays a visit to the police station and the ballplayer’s felonies magically become misdemeanors.


51 posted on 10/17/2017 8:22:26 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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What is really funny is that professors use these students as labor; like cleaning snow off their houses side walk, etc. I also can tell u that Harvywood has nothing on these creeps.


52 posted on 10/17/2017 10:23:35 PM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is a globalist scam for power!)
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No doubt. When I was an engineering undergrad in the later 90s, it was obvious that things were skewed when a hot girl with a C-average was on scholarship and was awarded a fellowship to get her master’s. My GPA was markedly better than hers and I was getting nothing. I’ve also interviewed a few of them. Same old story: she has a good GPA, master’s degree, was on scholarship/fellowship most of the way through school, has some really nice school awards, then you start talking engineering with her and she doesn’t know the difference between shear and bending stresses. She seemed like she’d never heard of torsion. Not too hard to figure out how she got through school. She latched onto some faculty guy having marital problems and her ticket was punched. My life was harder and I didn’t get that prime job at United Technologies right out of college but I’m so glad I did it honestly.


53 posted on 10/18/2017 8:46:06 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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