Higher Ed Must Evolve or Die
Thanks to lockdowns, the industry is now teetering on the brink.
by John Jiang
May 5, 2020, 12:42 PM
by Doug Bandow
I am intimately familiar with the frustrations that typify the higher education bubble from my vantage point here at one of America’s liberal arts institutions. To list a few, there is the omnipresent and overfunded diversity bureaucracy, the overreliance on international students for revenue, the incessant relitigation of comically marginal issues (every other campus event is about “trans women of color†or some variation thereof), the litany of useless degrees, and the archaic “gen-ed†curriculum that turns a two-year education into a bloated four-year “experience.â€
Beyond providing training in a select few highly cerebral or technical fields, colleges play an increasingly parasitic role in society: they’ll take four years from your life and a few hundred thousand dollars out of your wallet in return for a bachelor’s degree that you only need because everyone else has one. Even the loftier ideals of spiritual and aesthetic edification have been supplanted by mandatory mediocrity under the guise of identity politics, a scourge felt in every aspect of campus life from student theater to activism.
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