Posted on 10/28/2023 11:02:07 AM PDT by golux
Good Luck.
As an alumnus, I say that Harvard MUST get rid of its new president, Claudine Gay!! They must also dissociate itself from the “leadership” of Penny Pritzker!
This is about a lot more than just Israel!
More war, more death.
I propose that we do to Hamas supporting college students EXACTLY what Hamas does to Jews. Period. Let’s see how the little illiterate turds like it...before they assume room temp.
Democrat s holes are disarmed and make good targets. There will not be an invasion in my neck of the woods.
Defund the universities.
Severely curtail exchange student programs of students from Arab Muslim countries as well as China.
Or eliminate these programs altogether.
It'll take a while. Harvard's current endowment is over $53 billion. While I wouldn't discourage philanthropists from attempting to use the power of the purse here (having taken all three of the universities in my will, out), that becomes more difficult when ideologues have stolen the entire purse for themselves, and consider their institutions ground gained in a decades-long military campaign often dubbed the Long March Through The Institutions. That gain isn't to be reasoned away, it was gained by force, patience, connivance, and misdirection, and is likely only to be surrendered the same way. What passed in the 70's, for example, as an antiwar bias turned out to be prowar against existing society; what passed as anti-authoritarian turns out to be militantly pro-authoritarian in favor of the new orthodoxy. The masks have come off because they hold the ground.
Every revolution requires student passion, and the less critical those students are, the better for the revolutionaries. What passes as educational turns out to be anti-educational, the most visible signs being the outrageous cheapening of academic credentials, especially in the liberal arts, and the relentless attempts to degrade the STEM curricula as well. The donors supporting much of this haven't been private at all, they've been the public taxpayers even in nominally private institutions, and believe me, none of the recipients of this largesse has the slightest inclination either to acknowledge this or to inquire as to the intentions of the frequently critical involuntary sources whom they consider their inferiors.
What is the purpose of a “university education” if not to provide society with a more civilized person who better understands the world around them and acts in an ethical and civil manner?
A university education use to mean something, especially if it was from a college of arts and sciences. However, when degrees began to digress to the woke fad of the year, like certain minority studies, gender based studies, etc. The concept of a university educated person began to loose its historic meaning.
I can understand why college loans to support such educations are not worth the money any longer.
Don’t forgive and don’t forget.
“Instead of waiting for universities to change, we should consider developing more Jewish alternatives to higher education that will be open to Jews and non-Jews alike and attract the best minds worldwide(....) “
This is a much more sensible option than mourning the decline and decay of the Ivy League.
The elite universities are gatekeepers for entry into America’s elite institutions.
When this Regime collapses, those institutions will as well, and the graduates who filled those institutions will also be out.
Jews did that in the mid to late 19th century. Thinking - Brandeis, Baruch College and there are others.
Well, they need to do it again. Because the institutions you named, and others are now part of the problem of pro-Hamas Leftism.
Private schools’ obsessions about race (Exeter, for instance, setting a 50% “people of color” target for admissions before reviewing a simple applicant,) will also have an effect on academia at all levels. In many cases this because the white kids admitted will already be legacies, who traditionally underperform others.
That is to say, frankly, that the students going to the big schools are decreasingly chosen on intelligence and performance factors.
In the secondary school world, schools like McCallie in Tennessee, which is a diverse but decidedly not-Woke institution, are now welcoming some of the brightest kids in the country... Kids whose families eschew race-based admissions policies and kids of “inferior” (white, asian) races.
This is the first time we have seen people, when talking about high-performing students, talk about “Choate, Exeter, Harvard-Westlake, McCallie...”
It will be interesting to see how desirable Harvard grads are in 5 years.
“. Private schools’ obsessions about race (Exeter, for instance, setting a 50% “people of color” target for admissions before reviewing a simple applicant,) will also have an effect on academia at all levels. In many cases this because the white kids admitted will already be legacies, who traditionally underperform others. “
This is the same tactics as the Ivy League.
In both cases I see it as the Elite trying to help their offspring by reducing the competition.
The Ivy League is THE gatekeeper to Regime institutions. If you get rid of the scholastic merit applicants, and replace them with intellectually deficient minorities, you reduce the competition for the legacies for position in Regime institutions.
Good for McCAllie to raise their standards. But they are going to find that their kids are excluded from the Ivy League - and thus the Regime leadership pipeline.
I’ve said for 10 years that were I a hiring manager, I’d consider no one with a non-STEM Ivy League degree. And I’d think twice about a STEM grad from there.
Not all Ivy kids are left wingers. I’m on the right and went to Yale. William F. Buckley and many other prominent conservatives were forged somewhat in these leftist cauldrons.
McCallie is, in fact, now and has for some time been feeding the “best” colleges... They are on the map now of the top prep schools, in part, because nobody can ignore the performance of their students. It is a brilliant strategy: “shoot for the stars academically and don’t be racist.”
The Ivies are dropping academic assessments so they can better screen for political factors.
That’s just a reality.
It’s strange how racist the racist screamers are.
Hypocrisy knows no bounds among the “liberals”.
Yes, this is true. It is also true that the Ivies are not the schools they were: they are largely indoctrination centers, and not worth the money.
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