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U. Chicago English Dept. says it will ONLY admit ‘Black Studies’ grad students this year
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<blockquote data-quote="FullThrottleTX" data-source="post: 1366275" data-attributes="member: 14432"><p>Boomers have made such a push for everyone to attend college "for their careers" and now there's a supply/demand problem. When I was growing up (the 90s) it was almost unthinkable not to go to college, especially if you were a gifted child. Problem is, every kid is being treated this way. This has resulted in college going from some exclusive thing for intellectuals/wealthy to public school 2.0. All of these new humanities and liberal arts programs, which in the past just served the offspring of elites (regardless of career prospects), now have become a major cash cow for universities. This is at the expense of both the students and the society. Students come out of school with a useless degree and a ton of debt, and crappy intellectual tools like critical theory. Society loses too because of the cultural marxism that is being used to sell these university programs. If college were as rigorous as it should be, most people would be filtered out. Because universities want easy money, they'll water down the whole curriculum with this critical theory bullshit because it takes no discipline to complete.</p><p></p><p>Basically, there are too many people in college that don't belong there, including people who are in prominent positions of power (journalists), and the outcome is a lopsided labor market. The overeducated end up making less than people without degrees. Clown world is a plumber makes more money than an MA from a state school, but that's actually the case. Maybe it should be the case because at least the plumber is doing a useful job.</p><p></p><p>I really hope Trump tackles this his next term. Not only the cultural marxism, but the fact that universities are getting public funds with little societal benefit and the Federal Government has created a permanently indebted class.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FullThrottleTX, post: 1366275, member: 14432"] Boomers have made such a push for everyone to attend college "for their careers" and now there's a supply/demand problem. When I was growing up (the 90s) it was almost unthinkable not to go to college, especially if you were a gifted child. Problem is, every kid is being treated this way. This has resulted in college going from some exclusive thing for intellectuals/wealthy to public school 2.0. All of these new humanities and liberal arts programs, which in the past just served the offspring of elites (regardless of career prospects), now have become a major cash cow for universities. This is at the expense of both the students and the society. Students come out of school with a useless degree and a ton of debt, and crappy intellectual tools like critical theory. Society loses too because of the cultural marxism that is being used to sell these university programs. If college were as rigorous as it should be, most people would be filtered out. Because universities want easy money, they'll water down the whole curriculum with this critical theory bullshit because it takes no discipline to complete. Basically, there are too many people in college that don't belong there, including people who are in prominent positions of power (journalists), and the outcome is a lopsided labor market. The overeducated end up making less than people without degrees. Clown world is a plumber makes more money than an MA from a state school, but that's actually the case. Maybe it should be the case because at least the plumber is doing a useful job. I really hope Trump tackles this his next term. Not only the cultural marxism, but the fact that universities are getting public funds with little societal benefit and the Federal Government has created a permanently indebted class. [/QUOTE]
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