Higher education as we know it is a lost cause. If your kid has an intrinsic thirst for learning or absolutely needs university degrees to pursue a particular career, choose wisely. Other than that, give your kids honest descriptions of what universities have become. There will be an emergence or transformation of a few universities that explicitly reject all that dominates our universities, but I don't like the long-term prospects of these alternatives. State legislatures need to cut funding, close many campuses, and, most of all, the parents who overwhelmingly pay the tuition dollars for undergrads need to cut off the food supply for the academic Leviathan.
Link: https://journaltimes.com/news/state-and-regional/survey-uw-students-afraid-to-express-views-in-class/article_06b7e230-2c2d-58e3-b50d-8bddaf6e35f4.html
... at all schools as of January 31, 2023.The 64-campus SUNY college system is turning into the Woke University of New York — ordering incoming freshman at all of its colleges, will have to pass a new “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice”-themed class to earn a diploma.
Big UM fans, yet very frustrated because he had to change essays because he knew that prof would penalize his grade for conservative perspective. Says it is very hostile to conservatives.
Another friend’s son at UM was docked 5% off the bat on his initial freshman essay on entering school at UM because he referred to himself as a “freshman”, and he was informed that this was a gender-insensitive offensive term.
A third student at GVSU reported that while at least half of the students are conservative, they all know better than to express any such thought in class or in papers.
Its no just grades, it is the threat of being reported. Parents don’t understand how prevalent this has become.
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…..and they’d need to notice it by being conservative. While I have friends on both sides of the aisle, I am very sure that you do not allow such diversity in your personal life. I also doubt you are close to people who have children based on the sentiments espoused in a 50k sample size of your posts.
Who shut down opposing political views on Twitter and then rationalized it? That would be the same liberals who are censoring thought at many of our universities.
Can you imagine what that would be like to live under?
Scary thought is that we could be sending our kids to a Florida school for the academic freedom.
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