The academy has been self destructing for decades.
3 thoughts on “College”
“There are various contributors to the drop from falling birthrates to poor economic times. However, there is also an increasing view of higher education as an academic echo chamber for far left agendas.”
There are millions of military aged (er, college aged) men who have been welcomed across our border by those in D.C. How long until university presidents, trustees, BIPOC student groups, and faculty senates request, nay demand, the federal government fund these opportunity seeker’s post-seconday education?
Medical schools would do better, I think, eliminating the requirement for a 4-year college degree and changing to a 5 or 6-year medical school curriculum. As is done in most of the world.
A 4-year college degree does not seem to help the practice of law: Despite undergraduate degrees, Law schools continue to graduate people who a) cannot reliably pass bar exams and b) have no idea how to practice law without a period of internship.
Engineers and architects? Classes in fundamental feminist-queer theory seem to have little application.
I don’t think colleges have ever been expected to graduate finished professionals. My father graduated in the early ’50’s and went to work for the power company. He was told that a newly graduated engineer should expect to be working the first five years under close supervision. Certainly, none of the new graduates I’ve met have been dry behind the ears.
That said, our society can’t be sustained for long with only high school graduates with maybe a six month course and a certificate. Especially considering the quality of modern high school graduates. Colleges need to do better and they specifically need to discourage anybody from pursuing post graduate studies without some years of practical experience and most especially if they are intending to end up as teachers. This would cut into their revenue stream, so I’m not holding my breath.
“There are various contributors to the drop from falling birthrates to poor economic times. However, there is also an increasing view of higher education as an academic echo chamber for far left agendas.”
There are millions of military aged (er, college aged) men who have been welcomed across our border by those in D.C. How long until university presidents, trustees, BIPOC student groups, and faculty senates request, nay demand, the federal government fund these opportunity seeker’s post-seconday education?
Medical schools would do better, I think, eliminating the requirement for a 4-year college degree and changing to a 5 or 6-year medical school curriculum. As is done in most of the world.
A 4-year college degree does not seem to help the practice of law: Despite undergraduate degrees, Law schools continue to graduate people who a) cannot reliably pass bar exams and b) have no idea how to practice law without a period of internship.
Engineers and architects? Classes in fundamental feminist-queer theory seem to have little application.
I don’t think colleges have ever been expected to graduate finished professionals. My father graduated in the early ’50’s and went to work for the power company. He was told that a newly graduated engineer should expect to be working the first five years under close supervision. Certainly, none of the new graduates I’ve met have been dry behind the ears.
That said, our society can’t be sustained for long with only high school graduates with maybe a six month course and a certificate. Especially considering the quality of modern high school graduates. Colleges need to do better and they specifically need to discourage anybody from pursuing post graduate studies without some years of practical experience and most especially if they are intending to end up as teachers. This would cut into their revenue stream, so I’m not holding my breath.