Even during a crisis, colleges abuse their economic and reputational privileges
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#2> Almost no college is considering a tuition rebate, which implies that online learning should be valued at the same rate as an on-campus class. Students and their parents may start to ask why they should pay astronomical fees for a campus experience if they can get the same instruction over the web.
Prof Scott Galloway's blog (No Mercy, No Malice) recently took a swipe at higher-ed fees and the ever-increasing financial burdens being placed on students - and younger people in general. It considers this in a post-Covid-19 world:
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#3Yes, a true racket in Ponzi style, and in Ponzi style, the crash will be huge...
Re: Even during a crisis, colleges abuse their economic and reputational privileges
#4University is a joke in Australia. Anything for Chinese dollars, Chinese students don’t need to know English, barely contribute to the forced group assignments. I completed degree and masters and ensured many Asians passed with minimal effort because no one cared, domestic students were told shut up or fail. My life goal is to never employ any international student from Asia. No problem with Aussie Asian students they worked and contributed, they were also pissed off at the internationals.
I learned more on udemy then in my IT masters. $15 programming python course
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#5The article seemed to me to be a mix of two things, railing against the costs (blamed on the rise of administrators), and railing against the existence of diversity administrators.
I'm a professor employed at my present institution, a small liberal arts school, since 1990. I am not an administrator of any kind, don't read the Chronicle, and don't understand where all the money goes. I will say though, that when I started we had very few students who were not white. Very few, particularly if you omitted athletes. But today a good chunk, 40% maybe, of the student body is, to my eye, nonwhite. I don't know how much of that can be ascribed to the diversity officer but it is IMHO a very good thing.
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#6Yes, a true racket in Ponzi style, and in Ponzi style, the crash will be huge...
Tech is gonna get hit hard just like every sector, so you better learn how to say that phrase too, buddy.
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#7The article seemed to me to be a mix of two things, railing against the costs (blamed on the rise of administrators), and railing against the existence of diversity administrators. I'm a professor employed at my present institution, a small liberal arts school, since 1990. I am not an administrator of any kind, don't read the Chronicle , and don't understand where all the money goes. I will say though, that when I st…
Is it good when minorities are over-represented? meaning some white students are being discriminated against?
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#9The article seemed to me to be a mix of two things, railing against the costs (blamed on the rise of administrators), and railing against the existence of diversity administrators. I'm a professor employed at my present institution, a small liberal arts school, since 1990. I am not an administrator of any kind, don't read the Chronicle , and don't understand where all the money goes. I will say though, that when I st…
There certainly seemed to be an over-abundance of jabs at Diversity and Inclusion programs and staff. They’re surely a very small minority of the admin bloat, and they pursue a noble goal.
It wasn’t that surprising to see Jared Taylor being recommended in the comments, given the subject matter and conservative angle this piece has.
Re: Even during a crisis, colleges abuse their economic and reputational privileges
#10The article seemed to me to be a mix of two things, railing against the costs (blamed on the rise of administrators), and railing against the existence of diversity administrators. I'm a professor employed at my present institution, a small liberal arts school, since 1990. I am not an administrator of any kind, don't read the Chronicle , and don't understand where all the money goes. I will say though, that when I st…
The US is 72.4% white. You would then expect there to be 27.6% non-white students at any particular institution, assuming no racial discrimination, etc. So then why is 40% non-white a desirable outcome? I thought the point was to compensate for exclusion / marginalization / discrimination, in which case the target should be that aforementioned 27.6%.
EDIT: since many people are replying to me saying that using the national demographic stats is a bad thing to do, I will use the stats for GP's state, which appears to be Virginia. Using these stats (94.2% white), you would expect the school to have only 5.8% non-white students, assuming a complete lack of racial discrimination compared to the state population.
I personally still think using the national stats is a better idea, as the goal of a college / university should not be to only educate people from the state it is located in.