Confirms my hunch that Trump is going to flip the Black vote.The best way to achieve this goal is to cut off federal funding. That is to say no more public funds are to be used for any higher education whatsoever. No grants, no loans, no kidding.
No more state aid to any college, no taxes to be directed to any university.
Starve the beast.
Colleges will eventually price themselves out of business, but it won’t happen quickly as long as the government is subsidizing them. Eliminate gov’t money and the whole house of cards collapses.
check out his faculty page.
https://las.depaul.edu/academics/philosophy/faculty/Pages/jason-hill.aspx
it appears that he is a Jamaican immigrant, a poet, and obviously a philosopher. he is pioneering something called “cosmopolitanism” and i’ve never heard a philosopher ruminate on that topic. the point being. the guy sounds fascinating. he’s not some hick conservative (like me, for example... :0). but a serious intellectual with an interesting (ie, cosmopolitan) background and varied interests (ie cosmopolitan).
this guy seems to be the real deal. what academic “should” be about.
plus he started college the same year as I did...
As long as there is NCAA level college football and basketball and partying at school, there will always be traditional college.
After 16 years teaching at two different schools ,the second supposedly a fairly conservative, I was shown the door for being too conservative. I see this man’s point.
One answer, if at all possible, is to send your kids to local schools and keep them living at home, at least through undergrad. I suspect most of us live within driving distance of a decent university, maybe not Ivory League, but still good enough, and if a state school, much cheaper. On top of that, community college is an option for the first 2 years.
That was how we did it for our kids...they did great in community college (which isn’t surprising, since we didn’t let Big Education ‘teach’ them math and reading...we did it), and no problem getting into the local 4 year college, and then getting good degrees and great jobs.
I actually did go to one of those huge, highly respected, now-shithole colleges. Its now been several decades and I’m still waiting for them to blow off Leftism before I have never given them a dime (no matter how often they ask)...and, for some reason, I doubt that they’ll ever get anything from me.
It’s just REALLY SAD how many otherwise conservative people actually do donate to these s-holes, and how many send their kids there without any real preparation regarding what they’re going to enter...check that, it is simply NOT POSSIBLE to prepare kids for that - if they live on campus, you might as well write them off, once you finish unpacking the car at the dorm for their first semester. It’s over.
Confirms my hunch that Trump is going to flip the Black vote.Journal-worthy ping.
American history now has become particularly politicized by PC Revisionists. Only one interpretation is permitted. Deviate from this and you are all but labelled a heretic and if you are a professor, you can forget about Tenure or getting hired if its known you don’t tow the line ideologically. This has become the norm in Liberal Arts from what I’ve seen.
There is a solution IMO. We don’t need to be so radical as to shut down entire universities. Its overwhelmingly liberal arts that’s been infected with this crap. What we need to do is condition student loans on certain fields of study...ie science, engineering, architecture, finance, accounting, business, etc. If you want to get a liberal arts degree, you pay for it.
That alone would shut off a lot of the money going to support many of these BS courses. A lot of these pukes would be out of a job. As an added bonus, this would steer more students toward economically useful fields of study instead of crap like gender studies, african studies, philosophy, etc.
Just end the flow of massive, low interest-rate, printed money and debt from government and the crappiest universities and teachers will shut down themselves.
He would have loved Mrs Mao, planner of China’s disastrous “Cultural Revolution”.
I have no college experience, but being in the 60+ plus age bracket, I remember that college was a desirable thing for the most part. Now it appears that one is no longer taught how to think, but simply what to think. And even a GED holder such as me can see the difference between education and indoctrination.
Being from DePaul, the professor knows full well the degree of Marxist infiltration even into his own university. They have a Hanoi-For-Lunch bunch of Ho lovers there.
An aphorism attributed to Kruschev: “What we really need to do around here is to shoot a few more intellectuals.”