No doubt this professor will be savaged on Twitter and Facebook. If he is not tenured, his job will be at risk.
He will probably be doxed and later paid an unplanned visit by the local Antifa. I admire this professor for taking the risk and saying what needs to be said by millions of others.
I think Big College is the next bubble to burst.
One of mine is returning to complete her degree. Online at a college broker. They are setting up her curriculum with classes from several schools. The cost is minimal, around $3000 a semester or maybe that’s a year.
Another just graduated as an Astronautical Engineer from a small specialized geek school.
Got hired after his first interview working at NASA.
I am a professor and this essay is correct.
SOOOOO—, Professor:
Are you part of the problem ?
or are you part of the solution after years ?????
I am a Professor, too. I like the cut of his Jib.
I am in total agreement with this, however, it will never happen, sadly enough.
Closing colleges would create a nation of people wandering in the wilderness. I’m all for it.
University Liberals launched their own version of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. It has now culminated with lack of free speech, groups such as ANTIF, BLM, and OWS. All in an effort to destroy our Republic, destroy our Constitution, and bring about a dictatorship of a Socialist Intelligentsia.
Colleges are communist enclaves.I dont want my money taken for that anymore that non union people want there money tearing their free speech from their mouths. The Supreme Court has spoken. That is unconstitutional and I want my money withdrawn!!NOW!!
He has it right - today’s universities are mostly beyond reform. They can only be replaced and hopefully will be.
“...they deride reason as a Eurocentric creation...”
Yet the EU is among the least democratic governments installed to rule over peeps.
Many of us here in Freeperville have been saying this for years. I hope his words carry some weight and spreads like wildfire.
The author, Jason D. Hill, is black. I don’t know if that will protect him from or exacerbate the coming liberal vitriol.
Autodidacticism
France saved themselves in the end by shutting down the whole academic debacle nationwide until relative sanity could re-establish itself.
The US universities in the aggregate are approaching the boundaries of functionality, and we may need to close the state university systems across the country, disband administration and faculties, until a return to sanity can be effected.
Good post!
I have proposed that same thing for our K-12th grade students.
Those schools should be shut down for a year.
Private groups should be invited to bid for providing services.
Those entities would do the hiring and firing. No unions allowed.
If a union set up a bidding process, the school would shut down and move. New staff would be hired at the new location.
I don’t know how to facilitate this to avoid labor law problems with this, but there must be a way.
Have all teachers sign an at will clause for employment, so they can quit any time they like and the employer can let them go any time the employer wants to.
Go over all books, interview all teachers, look at their records. Hire only the good ones back.
The first hint of Leftist ideology from any of them would be met with at will dismissals.
Kids need to come first.
I’d also drop all the social engineering stuff.
Do not let any Leftist groups on campus for any reason.
-—The gravest internal threat to this country is not illegal aliens; it is leftist professors who are waging a war against America and teaching our young people to hate this country.-—
Absolutely right. But don’t think this is limited to higher education. High schools and even Middle schools are in on the act.
And of course after high school, the steady drumbeat of: “Ya gotta go to college if ya wanna be somebody!!”. That guarantees a steady flow of indoctrinated useful idiots to send out into the world.
I was once proud to be a DePaul graduate...but that was over two decades ago, when they still offered a quality, rigorous education for a fairly-affordable tuition. I won’t even mention the place to others now.