We have previously discussed how activism in the media and corporations has triggered increasing public backlash. Social agendas have undermined trust and profits, but the pressure to pursue those goals remains high regardless of their cost. The same appears to be true for higher education. Universities and colleges have been criticized for purging their ranks of conservative or dissenting faculty while creating environments of political orthodoxy and viewpoint intolerance. A Gallup poll shows the result of years of erosion in viewpoint tolerance with only 36% of polled Americans saying that they have confidence in the country’s colleges and universities. That is a sharp decline from 2018 when almost half trusted our colleges and universities.
Not surprisingly, the greatest drop was among Republicans who face increasingly hostile environments on campuses and cancel campaigns for conservative or libertarian speakers. Republicans with either a “great deal” or “quite a lot of confidence” in higher education dropped from 37% to 19%. The poll suggests a growing view of colleges and universities as hostile environments for those with conservative, libertarian, and dissenting views.
At the same time, many are simply rejecting higher education as an option due to a mix of high costs and lower relevancy for them personally. The view of campuses as places of indoctrination also likely plays a role in that trend. Few conservatives relish the idea of paying high tuition to have their children spend four years with unrelenting attacks on their views and values while limiting their own speech opportunities.
The same view is growing among donors. The ideological intolerance has led donors to pull their support from schools like, most recently, the University of Arizona.
This trend has worsened as our faculties have become less ideologically diverse, except to the extent that they reflect a diverse spectrum running from the left to the far left.
For example, a new survey conducted by the Harvard Crimson shows that more than three-quarters of Harvard Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty respondents identify as “liberal” or “very liberal.” Only 2.5% identified as “conservative,” and only 0.4% as “very conservative.” That is replicated in other schools like a recent poll at MIT, which found only a small percentage (if any) of faculty self-identify as Republican or conservative.
That is in comparison to a Gallup poll that found that “roughly equal proportions of U.S. adults identified as conservative (36%) and moderate (35%).” Only 26% identified as liberal.
What is striking is that none of this matters to individual administrators and faculty members. There are still powerful personal and professional incentives to reinforce this orthodoxy on campuses. More importantly, there are costs to speaking out against such agendas or supporting colleagues who have been targeted by cancel campaigns.
The result is that, as with many in the media and corporate settings, academics continue to saw at the branch upon which we all sit.
Read an article the other day of people actually leaving based on their politics and values for states with like minded people. Both Red and Blue states.
I think that is what we need in academia. Let the free market work, open new colleges and universities that reflect the values of students.
In the past, high education was to produce a well rounded grad. It was a nice idea but with the rising costs streamline higher education. Focus on classes that have a direct relation to the major.
Computer science major should not have to take a class on 16th century English lit.
A nursing student should not have to take a oceanography class.
Revamp the accreditation process or create a new one that cuts the useless classes.
And cut DEI, CRT useless classes. No one needs those. My daughter was forced to take one in order to graduate. IIRC that was an additional $1200 she had to spend.
Imagine the time and money that could be saved.
Nice idea in principle but not even close to feasible. And why go to the massive expense and trouble of additional schools (kinda like the Amish farm house approach) when reform could accomplish the same objectives?
Ex Dem,
I dont think reform is possible.
Woke leftism is too entrenched.
Better to continue the national divorce.
I disagree. E. Pluribus unum.
Woke leftism is the scapegoat of statists.
P.S. I did not mean to imply that you were a statist, Upstate Farmer. Sorry.
🙁 I, too, have sometimes fallen into pointing fingers because some of these problems aren’t entirely manufactured.
I’m so tired of the left/right divide that seems to only be losing us our freedom and control of our own self-governance. 🙁
In any case, I should be more careful with my wording. My apologies.
UpstateFarmer,
It does appear we have “irreconcilable” disagreements in ideologies that impact our most fundamental and natural need to be secure in our right to life, liberty and property. It would appear our country functions more like the EU everyday, with our state’s resembling individual countries. Even our internal migration patterns mirror what is happening in Europe. We’ll continue this migration pattern as long as we still have a functioning republican form of government. And while the Leftists continue their “gain of function” research in their respective “laboratories of democracy”, it would be wise for conservatives to migrate to “labs” that offer better security of their rights and bolster their defenses against any “leaks” coming out of those labs.
“Read an article the other day of people actually leaving based on their politics and values for states with like minded people. Both Red and Blue states.”
The citizens of our nation are self-sorting and moving to states with leaders that share their political viewpoints. Those that value freedom are moving to red states, and those that see more government regulations and interference in their lives as the solution to all problems are moving to progressive-governed states.
“Focus on classes that have a direct relation to the major.
Computer science major should not have to take a class on 16th century English lit.”
I fundamentally and absolutely disagree. You will create a cog in the machine. This time it will be a cog in the Digital 4.0 Industrial Revolution. The goal is not to create a worker bee. Becoming educated means people will have a better and more well-rounded understanding of the world, making them more able to effectively engage in life as a self-governing citizen, parent, community member, individual, and, yes, someone with a job or career. A mechanic I know made a great allusion to King Lear in a discussion we were having.
Farmer up north — Traditionally a liberal education includes a few courses on English literature and world history. Also often an exposure to a foreign language, not that Spanish is so foreign in the USA. Nowadays at least one course on numeracy, often pre-calculus algebra. The better students from the larger high schools can usually take these courses in high school where 2 semesters are considered to be equivalent to 1 @ university.
Oh, the horror! JT writes that a donor cut off donations to the University of Arizona for its intolerance of Conservative speakers. A thousand times “no.” It was Arizona State University! U of A would never censor conservatives.
If men are from mars and women are from venus, the other genders must be from uranus.
Between the universities and cities mixed with all the problems we see, one would think Democrats would take a hint, but they don’t. It is a pure power grab.
“Top 5 most stressed-out U.S. cities are run by Democrats, research shows
The study’s Top-5 cities are Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, Birmingham, Alabama, and Philadelphia at the top of the list.
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/top-5-most-stressed-out-us-cities-are-run-democrats-study?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
Public trust in universities has plunged. Wow, that’s a surprise.
Alan, I rose to your defense, but my gallant riposte has disappeared. I take it ATS blew up the thread, again?
Thank you, Diogenes. I have since read your responses in my email though one can no longer trace them on the blog due to a person who lacks concern for others.
For Anonymous I will list all the cities named Birmingham.
Birmingham – Virginia
Birmingham – Pennsylvania
Birmingham – Ohio
Birmingham – New Jersey
Birmingham – Missouri
Birmingham – Mississippi
Birmingham – Michigan
Birmingham – Kentucky
Birmingham – Kansas
Birmingham – Iowa
Birmingham – Indiana
Birmingham – Illinois
Birmingham – Georgia
Birmingham – Alabama
Those who can, work. Those who can’t, teach… and those who can’t even teach, troll Jonathan Turley’s blog.
After Mr. Musk bought Twitter, I finally realized why social media had censored so much: to hide the fact that most people who are internet savvy are actually quite conservative. Well, the blue checks can’t hide it anymore. Now you should see how the left gets roasted on Twitter, so they’re fleeing to the new salt lick of the brainwashed herd, Threads. Unfortunately for them, even the Guardian thinks it’s a bore:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2023/07/14/zuckerbergs_threads_is_vapid_and_destined_to_fail_603091.html
Unfortunately for us, the same disenfranchisement of patriots still persists in academia.
Professor Turley and Mr. Musk have stripped the bark off the big lie in America today. The march to take back our institutions is up to us… but now we know it can be done.
Diogenes…….thunbs up! (I don’t have any emojis!)
Thank you, Cindy. See you on Twitter 😉
“Those who can, work. Those who can’t, teach…”
I really don’t like this phrase, Diogenes. 🙁
Teaching, good teaching, is very challenging. To be able to instill wonder, knowledge, and deepen an understanding of the world in your students takes a great deal of thought and work. The Bible even talks about how challenging it is and that only the select should be called to participate in this honorable profession. Please do not degrade the thousands of teachers out there who are doing their level best to achieve this, oftentimes in very difficult circumstances and unsupportive atmospheres.
I stand corrected Prairie Rose. There are many notable exceptions, just as you say.
“Teaching, good teaching, is very challenging.”
That is true, but for too many teachers, what Diogenes said is true.
” Please do not degrade the thousands of teachers out there”
The ones degrading the teaching profession the most are the teachers and the teacher’s union. Over the past number of years, we have much about the teaching profession, and a lot of that isn’t good.
Which was my point but now more clearly stated by Alan. Thanks, Alan 🙂
Thank you, Diogenes. If you have never read Christopher Rufo, here is his last blog. With all the “terrorism” against conservatives in the universities, one can see the academics that report in the news media as Tampa Bay doesn’t seem to understand that many conservatives in those woke universities will go to Florida with its warm weather. If things continue, Florida will contain the Harvard and Yales of the South.
https://rufo.substack.com/p/the-chilling-effect?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1248321&post_id=134585079&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=emai
S. Meyer,
“The ones degrading the teaching profession the most are the teachers and the teacher’s union.”
A fair bit is propaganda meant to tear down teachers for…reasons. agendas.
For the lousy, low quality teachers out there, is it the teachers or the gatekeepers? Is a 2.75 GPA actually acceptable for someone to become a teacher?! Colleges shouldn’t certify and districts probably shouldn’t hire anyone with less than a 3.25 in their primary subject area.
I won’t get involved in the chicken and egg argument but I will say I am upset that so many teachers are of low quality. The teacher’s unions as they are today do not deserve to exist.
That is fair. I agree.
Iowan is correct, our steep descent into a socialist, non-functioning over-reaching government reached its zenith with “The Great Society” democrat legislation of the 60’s and the disaster of the affirmative action and hate-speech legislation a bit late. We have lost our foothold on our national ethos and are in danger of failing completely as both a nation and a culture. Woodrow Wilson was the gusto.
Whimsical, LBJ was a very evil man. No matter how you look at him.
Totally agree. I have often wondered just how differently this nation would have proceeded if Nixon had won in 1960. Just how much of this prog/left nonsense would not have gotten purchase with the public if democrats had not controlled the 60’s.
Nixon had plenty of his own machinations.
While we debate left/right, liberal/conservative problems in education, AI creeps in behind the scenes with nary a debate.
Will AI exacerbate the aforementioned debate?
How will AI affect the functioning of a republic and self-governance?
Will it undermine further people’s freedoms, their initiative, their integrity?
Are the so-called measures being put into place in European universities adequate to the task of dealing with AI? What of the debate here? Or, are we just bickering about the shape of a table?
The WEF link I meant to include:
https://youtu.be/eMz1_tb2juI
If the public knew how much money college endowments comprise, pitchforks and torches would be involved.
Outright greed in education should play an important part in the tuition and loan debate.
“… more than three-quarters of Harvard Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty respondents identify as ‘liberal’ or ‘very liberal’.”
As an oldtimer who spend 5 years in mechanical engineering school beginning in 1971, I don’t understand the relevance of “more than three-quarters” of Harvard’s School of Engineering faculty being “liberal” or “very liberal,” because in precisely NONE of my engineering or related science classes were there any discussions, lectures, or exam work related to anything BUT principles of engineering. Material Science is material science, whether one is a “liberal” or “conservative,” and the same goes for Physics, Calculus and Linear Algebra, Chemistry, Statics, Dynamics, etc.
There’s all the difference in the world between mechanical engineering and social engineering, and if people are PAYING for training in mechancial engineering and receiving training in social engineering, it sounds like there’s a non-negligible element of FRAUD at play.
But now it has been determined by out wise experts, to whom we must defer in all things, that the traditional methods of teaching fact-based science and math is deeply and irreparably racist, sexist, and certainly transphobic.
So our grandchildren’s bridges will be built upon the new, improved, socially conscious “science.” May God help them.
I guess mechanical engineers will have to get to work designing stronger umbrellas, what with all the planes that will be falling out of the skies while crashing equitably into non-segregated neighborhoods.
And the crashes will be celebrated as having absolutely no disparate racial impacts. Which is obviously more important than saving actual lives of actual people.
Forcefields will be needed a la Violet Parr.
Violet Parr was a bit before my time. I was thinking more along the lines of Martian umbrella forcefields circa the year of my birth (1953), which must certainly have been reverse-engineered by now.
A look at the college catalog reveals that engineering students take more than the “engineering courses” you selected. There remain a host of required “liberal arts” courses in which students can be indoctrinated? And, do those engineering professors never talk about the business and professional environments in which engineers live and work?
skipkirkwood — No, engineering professors only lecture on the principles appropriate for the particular course.
There is (or was in my time) a single course related to “engineering economics,” but it was not taught by the engineering school, to my recollection. As for the “electives” from which all university students are forced to choose, in order to broaden their scope of knowledge whether they like it or not, that has nothing to do with engineering school, which is the topic of my comment.
To the best of my knowledge, everyone that attends university has to take assorted electives outside of their major — but I don’t interpret that has having anything to do with Turley’s reference to Harvard’s “School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty.” I doubt that any of that faculty teaches the elective course in Mesopotamian feminist basket weaving.
Ralph, didn’t you know a building can be racist.
If mathematics is racist, the construction of a building has to be.
I know that to a racist, literallly anything can be racist.
Confidence plunges as costs skyrocket.
It is no longer “higher education” in today’s Amerika. It is the indoctrination of Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky Communist ideology. School administrators REWARD their best promoters of this garbage which is why nothing will change. Bigger salaries, book deals. I mean, why should they change ? They don’t give a damn about regular working Americans. Thank you, Jonathan, for an excellent article.
It is interesting to observe that many who hold far left tenants (“progressives” Marxists, Communists) are those who work for institutions and government where they derived their livelihood. Where does the money come from for them to buy their Tesla, vacations abroad and their research? It comes from tuition, some government support and alumni. There is a growing trend in higher education for corporate support of research (which is not all bad but brings conflicts of interest). Their income comes from somewhere. Maybe it is the “getting place” (No Country for Old Men).
How many within our academic institutions have experience in industry, owning a business, running a small business, running a farm or a ranch? That is where a person makes the connection to the “real world.” In the real world, something has to be produced, sold, modified a service provided and people have to be paid, the government is the first ones standing in line. The person who opens a business gets an education about regulations, law, all the entities who are in line to “wet their beak.”
In some cases, there is a disconnect (sometimes significant one) between the institution, the professors and administrators, and the real world. The graduated student is the product. The “real world” is the consumer.
I like what Whig98 said. The professors, regardless of their political or religious leanings, should teach students to learn how to think and commend them if they can bring a well-researched and thought about argument no matter how it stands politically (even if it is opposite the views of the professor). The students must be equipped with the ability to think for themselves, analyze their position and make independent conclusions.
In the end, what matters most is truth. True truth will stand the test of time, it will endure any argument and will never crumble during debate as long as it gets a fair chance to be heard. Those who oppose open and free debate do so for obvious reasons.
EM, do you really think these people know where money comes from?
‘The view of campuses as places of indoctrination also likely plays a role in that trend.’
Likely? That should be first or at the least second on the list, possibly after cost (which is indeed absurd). Our schools are no longer schools, and thank Zeus some donors (not enough) have bailed. This planet is on a totalitarian road to hell, and it’s got to stop. It just gets more egregious by the day. Get these leftist faux royalty OUT of power.
There’s no better way to force people to swallow what is being shoveled than to indoctrinate (schools) and coerce (coming after people’s ability to cook and heat and cool their homes to get them onboard with your horse sheet, for example). It’s communism/socialism/fascism 101. Oh, and then attempt to convince everyone that it’s actually your opposition who are fascists, and train the children to believe in it like gospel. E-nough!
The simple fact is that higher education has divorced itself from the mainstream thought of the nation. And we let it happen. This will not be solved by simple outrage. The recent Supreme Court decision to eliminate affirmative action is a good start. State legislatures must take charge of state schools but the simple leaving it to the Board of Governors or Directors is not enough. The legislatures by law must charge all state schools with having a range of political thought and act with teeth. They must make the boards handle the faculty hiring to spread thought diversity and they also need to rein in costs. If you look at statistics on cost, medical care has not had the highest increase for years but is often outpaced by higher education! Universities are there to teach you by new experience and study how to think and grow. That is a wide plateau of growth through many forests of ideas and not a narrow footpath of intolerance to any thought not meeting the approved leftist manifesto.
States can act with tax monies by eliminating many worthless programs and teaching programs that add nothing to knowledge. There is far too much taught in universities that has no real world use. Eliminate them.
The federal government can also be used, if you can get control of it, to enhance free thought and diverse opinions through their use of grants. Florida has shown the way with DeSantis’ remaking of some boards but this will not be accomplished by one administration. It will be multi year in length and ever vigilant.
Lastly you have to take a large groups of states acting together by hauling in the accrediting outfits for universities, medical schools, and other disciplines and start to tell them to stop the social re-engineering and focus on quality. Nothing else will suffice. It they will not, then form your own accrediting institutions.
Why do you think DEI, CRT, and the trans nuttiness has spread so fast. Because the accrediting institutions demand it. They need to be forced down a new path towards excellence and knowledge, not social strife. Social strife comes from universities anyway because of youthfulness, new thoughts, stretching your boundaries, discovery. It can be unleashed productively by removing the straightjacket of left wing radicalism.
@GEB
GEB, schools across the board have abandoned thought, *period*. I personally think we’ll have at least one generation, or a large part of one, that is basically feral before all of this is said and done. Centuries old progress across the globe is being systematically erased month by month. That is the *real* systematic _____ (fill in the blank).
“Why do you think DEI, CRT, and the trans nuttiness has spread so fast. ”
Here are a few reasons:
https://www.aasa.org/docs/default-source/resources/reports/commissionreportfinal-040821.pdf?sfvrsn=ae95668f_4
And ESSERs and a crazy interpretation of Title IX.
My favorite college professor back in the 70’s was a liberal (not sure he would be considered as such now). Since we were in Poli Sci, we often discussed politics, but he never once dinged me for my more conservative viewpoints. In his classes on political theory and con law, he taught me how to think and analyze, which is the job of higher education. Today’s students deserve more like him.
One thing we can all do, find an organization that champions Free Speech at your own alma mater and join/support it OR, if your alma mater doesn’t yet have one, form one. Search here:
https://www.alumnifreespeechalliance.org/find-an-existing-alumni-group/
It’s amazing how little the left cares about the public’s wishes.
Think about the border, about 70% of voters want a secure border and yet….
Think about voter I.D., probably 75% of voters want want voters to be identified when they vote and yet….
Think about the Trans issue with children being mutilated in their teens and earlier, nobody supports this and yet…. Think about teachers not telling parents that their own child is “transitioning, nobody, and I mean nobody supports this except the far left teacher’s unions and the far left gay community. NOT THE GAY COMMUNITY IN GENERAL, just the far left edge of even that group.
How about “bail reform and the ensuing crime surge? What % of people support letting the repeat offenders run free? Almost ZERO %, but here we are.
How about ridding ourselves of oil and gas energy? How many people really want to destroy the U.S. in the name of the Climate as we give China a pass? How many people do you know that don’t have a gas car? Don’t heat or cool their home? Don’t heat or cool their work environment?
How about riots in the streets and 2020? How many people do you know that weren’t appalled by these riots? How many people do you know that weren’t sickened by the fact that at the same time you couldn’t go visit your sick parent but the media and the Democrats said it was fine to riot? How about the doctors and nurses saying you would kill them if you went to Church or even the beach but they cheered on the rioters?
How about watching a top Republican, Trump, who I am not supporting in the primary, get indicted for doing on things on the same level as Joe Biden and Hilary Clinton? (Not to even mention the odious Hunter Biden and his corrupt ties with his father) As only 46% support Trump we see that about 60% of people think that the DOJ is political.
Even abortion, an issue that the media tells us is a one sided affair, is not exactly as it seems. Of course majorities don’t want a complete ban or even a ban at 6 weeks and this is how the media frames it. But when asked to compare a 6 week ban with abortion at 9 months you see a different result. The left gets to frame it and therefore the polls are skewed.
All of the above is why Democrats opt out of debates, they are on the wrong side of almost all the issues we face today and this ties in to why colleges are now distrusted as well.
Hullbobby-Well said. I don’t think I could have said it better myself.
The public favors progress. Right wingers only favor progress that enriches them…usually at the expense of the rest of us.
“Statists only favor progress that enriches them…usually at the expense of the rest of us.”
Both sides are complicit.
“Both sides are complicit.”
Prairie, forget the parties. Think of the ideas behind the philosophy. Parties are a convenience for those who want power and a paycheck.
Sometimes, I believe, we should pull the lever for the ideas honestly promoted by the candidate, and then a computer should figure out which candidate should get our vote. There is no way Biden would accumulate any sizable vote against any potential candidate for today. The country is more conservative than leftist. Many hold civil liberties in high esteem, something the left rejects.
S. Meyer,
I agree that we should look at CV the ideas and philosophy, not the parties.
“Sometimes, I believe, we should pull the lever for the ideas honestly promoted by the candidate, and then a computer should figure out which candidate should get our vote.”
“Honestly promoted” = difficult to ascertain.
I do NOT trust a computer to figure it out. Too easy to mess with its algorithms or hack it to get a desired outcome. Like at the end of the movie Sneakers or the interrogation scene in The Lego Movie.
P.S. I’ve been busy and will try to get back to our July 4th discussion soon.
“Honestly promoted” = difficult to ascertain.”
But not impossible.
Trump fulfilled or tried to fulfill most of his promises. Biden and Obama did not. DeSantis fulfills his promises.
We have to hold candidates to their pledges. We can see how Congress people vote. That tells a lot.
“Obama did not”
Well, he fulfilled the Change part. It just wasn’t the Change people wanted. 🙁
What the left calls progress, anyone with any degree of common sense calls retardation.
Bill, let me help straighten you out with a definition of leftism an opposite of conservative.
Leftism is the attempt to destroy the past—every value and every institution, the good as well as what it regards as the bad. __Dennis Prager “Conservatism seeks to conserve the best from the past. The Left seeks to destroy the past, including the best.”
“What is leftism?” is not at all the same as “What is liberalism?” Leftism and liberalism share almost no values. Indeed, perhaps the greatest tragedy of America today is that liberals do not vote their values. Leftists vote their values, and conservatives vote their values. But liberals vote for left-wing values, almost none of which they hold.”
“That’s all the Left does: fundamentally transform. Destroying everything it touches is not a byproduct of leftism. It is its aim.”
https://amgreatness.com/2023/06/20/can-you-define-leftism/
The public favors
progresslow crime rates, affordable housing, food, goods and services, schools that teach their children reading, writing and arithmetic instead of marxism, CRT and grooming children, a government free of corruption to admire instead of a corrupt Executive they fear where FBI, FTC, DOJ censors public speech and will raid their homes, an Attorney General that inspires confidence in Justice in America instead of one who paints bullseyes on the heads of parents and stalks Catholic churches, harasses pro-life activists and allows the intimidation of SCOTUS Justices to occur, …..the list is endless of how much disdain Americans have for the Federal Govt,RightDemocrat Left wingers only favor progress that enriches them…usually at the expense of the rest of us.56% Of Voters Agree Biden ‘Likely’ Took Bribes In Office: I&I/TIPP Poll
https://issuesinsights.com/2023/07/12/56-of-voters-agree-biden-likely-took-bribes-in-office-ii-tipp-poll/
Americans, by 56% to 27%, called Biden bribery charges “likely,” rather than “unlikely.” Further broken down, the “likely” responses included 34% who called it “very likely” compared to 21% who called it “somewhat likely.” Among the “unlikely” responses, only 12% said it was “not at all likely,” while 15% termed it “not very likely.” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, the Kentucky Republican in charge of Congress’ investigation of Biden, said that the president and his family might have raked in more than $40 million from foreign sources in return for making favorable decisions while in office, including the presidency.
Your handlers are not sending their better trolls
“It’s amazing how little statists care about the public’s wishes.”
Fixed it. I’ve seen Republicans disregard the public’s wishes, too. Statists, corporatists, and bureaucrats would rather run the show. And they can since not enough of we the people are bothering to toss them out of office or pay attention. Lots of people just vote D or R. Tribal allegiance is easy to manipulate while nonsense happens in the backdrop.
When we pick a sports team, we don’t concern ourselves that the lead player is immoral and beating up his wife. We don’t care if the players are terrible people. We pick our team and support them no matter what. Is politics more like a sports team than a serious attempt at better governance?
S. Meyer,
” Is politics more like a sports team than a serious attempt at better governance?”
Team colors and a mascot. Nuff said.
I suspect that the recent student debt forgiveness crisis contributes to the lack of confidence in higher education. The underlying theory behind the “forgiveness” is that college cost far more than it was worth to the students, so it was impractical to repay the loans. A bankruptcy option would be preferable to forgiveness.
The underlying theory behind the “forgiveness” is that college cost far more than it was worth to the students, so it was impractical to repay the loans. A bankruptcy option would be preferable to forgiveness.
There is a simple solution. CANCEL any govt involvement in student loans. Fixed!
The vacuum will be filled with Universities backstopped by their endowments, writing the paper for students. Also, student debt will be dischargable by bankruptcy. It is idiocy that the person selling the service, is not liable for that service. If the loan is servicable by the earnings
delivered by the degree.
The idea can be expanded by forming a pool of money to draw from all the endowments to aide those with meager endowments.
(side note) this is the reason Obama took over the student loan infrastructure from private lenders…..to facilitate forgiving the loans. It was always the long game )
I have visited numerous of the top schools in the country. They are far leftist outlets….where the minority are catered to, but the majority are indoctrinated
Time to end all federal aid and loans, make Democrats pay for the leftist agenda.
Also time to TAX all non-profits where anyone gets $100k….if you can pay a coach a million a year…you aren’t a non-profit
Numerous democrat operatives are given no-show jobs for millions…VP Biden got a $1 a Year Upenn deal…from a chinese funded institute.
Lets get back to college is FOR people doing higher education, no activism
correction:
I have visited numerous of the top schools in the country. They are far leftist outlets….where the minority are catered to, but the majority are indoctrinated
Time to end all federal aid and loans to colleges, make Democrats pay for the leftist agenda.
Also time to TAX all non-profits where anyone gets $100k….if you can pay a coach a million a year…you aren’t a non-profit
Numerous democrat operatives are given no-show jobs for millions…VP Biden got a $1 Million a Year Upenn deal…from a chinese funded institute.
Lets get back to college is FOR people doing higher education, not activism
“36% of polled Americans saying that they have confidence in the country’s colleges and universities.”
“Veto” the 3, then we’re getting somewhere.
Honestly the only diversity is Black.
When are we going to take a look at the last 60 years and admitt ALL the help the govt has arranged for blacks is a screaming disaster?
For the left that just mean make the lies bigger and louder.