That’s more or less the final sentence to this essay on the bleak future ahead for various university power structures:
The [John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy’s] work and influence can be seen as part of a trend: red states are beginning to lean forward on their skis in dealing with universities—institutions that have historically been bastions of Democratic and left-wing ideas. With higher ed costs rising inexorably, many conservative state representatives are likely wondering just why the state is offering tenured professorships in Transgressive Gender Studies with lots of time for ‘research’, and they are becoming more aggressive in trying to shake-up the higher ed system.
Ain’t that a shame. Speaking as a liberal arts major… OK, that’s unfair. Nobody hates liberal arts majors like a liberal arts major. We know all the tricks and hidden sins. Seriously, though: the level of useful education keeps dropping, while the costs and institutionalized stupidity keeps rising. Something’s got to give, and it’s not going to be the students (and their parents) forever. That redressing this problematical situation will also ruin a lot of Lefty days is merely a fortunate bit of serendipity. Maybe they should have hired more conservatives and given them tenure, neh? – I know, cynical of me. Fits the topic, frankly.
Via Instapundit)
Heh.
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If it’s a hard enough winter to kill off the vermin and pests, it’ll be a nicer springtime.
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Mew
SCSU was threatened with the Board of Governors getting fired because they spent the school into near bankruptcy. The State legislature was, at one point, thinking of absorbing it into USC to make it more efficient (and remove the corruption in the board), but the ACLU, NAACP, and a plethora of other alphabet letters raised enough of a stink to deep six that plan. So, I continue to subsidize the salaries of the Board and Administration of a school that has about half the students that it needs to function.
I only mention this as it relates to this post because it is a very Liberal liberal arts school that is very Democratically owned. And us red state SC-ians are tired of funding a school no one wants to go to….regardless of how historic the school may happen to be.
Like the public sector unions, the colleges have become tied to one political party. That is foolishness. As was done in Wisconsin with the unions, it will be done in the colleges.