The SJWs have done severe damage to the university, but the administration had it coming. Patricia has a lot of family members who live there, and have attended.
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The SJWs have done severe damage to the university, but the administration had it coming. Patricia has a lot of family members who live there, and have attended.
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BWAAAHAAHAAA.
Sorry, I’m ok now.
Gender and racial studies programs are taxpayer funded indoctrination sessions. But they’re great for keeping the football team academically eligible.
Maybe this is what peak education really is. College is meant to have a variety of ideas and such. But now, we see some ideas and their adherents are toxic enough to the very purpose and goals of academia and the college, that it threatens the future of the entire system.
And with the massive growth of education throughout the US, maybe we’re in a similar situation as organized labor was in the 1970s. There’s too much supply of professors and ideologues to maintain power over colleges that may need to cut back massively on the crazy in order to attract students and funding in order to survive.
I can’t imagine that students will continue to go to schools where kangaroo courts can kick them out of the school without due process of law, where seriously insane people insist on and obtain all sorts of privileges (via tools like “microaggression”) just because of their warped view of reality, where the leadership of the college knuckles under to anyone with a loud voice, and where new buildings and bureaucratic empire building is more important than education or research.
What’s going to happen when there are cheating, corruption, or abuse of power scandals which are roundly ignored by authority figures who don’t want to rock the boat?
For me, a long while back, I had been very interested in pursuing an academic career and while a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I taught several low level undergraduate classes in calculus. One time, I caught a student cheating on homework. He would erase answers that my grader for the class had marked as incorrect and scribble in the correct answer. I became suspicious because he had such corrections after each homework assignment while almost no one else did and photocopied his next assignment before I returned those graded assignments to class. In that way, I caught him in the act.
The process at the time was to go through a student-run tribunal. The representative from that tribunal took a look at my evidence and told me that I didn’t have a case because I hadn’t explicitly told students not to do that particular form of cheating on my syllabus. But sure, I could continue to pursue the case, if I really wanted to. After that lack of support from the university, I unconsciously rejected a career in academia. I guess I’ve always had a bit of lack of self-awareness and it took years for me to realize that I could trace my decision to that time.
Anyway, my point behind this story is that being in academia these days often requires a degree of intellectual compromise that shouldn’t happen. One needs to wear a mask to hide a variety of beliefs and behaviors which are scorned or outlawed by the college. Similarly, the habitual and institutionalized dodging of responsibility which seems pervasive on college campuses from the student up to the president of the college, has got to be corrosive to any sort of moral or ethical system.
I have not had this sort of trouble in the business world, but I think that’s because there’s no violated expectation of morality. There’s no subvertable pretense to a higher cause to soak up one’s mental energy.
I think here that the academia environment is a fertile environment for certain ideologies and certain pathological modes of thought. For example, Marxism has been a thing pretty much as long as there’s been college campuses in the modern approach. And weird cult-like groups have routinely started in college environments. It’s fine as long as they don’t rule the roost because most students when exposed to them recognize the madness and thus, are better prepared for the world. And there were many generations of university life which thrived.
But now, too many colleges have systems that reward perverse or dysfunctional behavior, such as the loudest voices carrying the day. Some which have institutionalized various sorts of punishments for rival belief systems. I think those will fall. Because the key thing that is missed is that college is voluntary. A lot of people will not subject themselves to this abuse. Similarly, word will get around about the general nature of graduates from particular colleges and those graduates will have greater difficulty in getting hired for jobs.
Thus, I think we’re seeing the form that correction of the overbuilding of the academic/educational industry will take. Students still perceive college as being necessary, but they don’t have to go to the colleges with the crazy people in the news and the cowards in administration.
College is mandatory if a person doesn’t want to work with his hands all his life. It was the business sector that chose to make the academy the gatekeeper to the middle class. Now the academic administrators hold unprecedented power and wealth.