[American Greatness] Elite higher education in America—long unquestioned as globally preeminent—is facing a perfect storm. Fewer applicants, higher costs, impoverished students, collapsing standards, and increasingly politicized and mediocre faculty reflect a collapse of the university system.
The country is waking up to the reality that a bachelor’s degree no longer equates with graduates being broadly educated and analytical. Just as often, they are stereotyped as pampered, largely ignorant, and gratuitously opinionated.
No wonder polls show a drastic loss of public respect for higher education and, specifically, a growing lack of confidence in the professoriate.
Each year, there are far fewer students entering college. Despite a U.S. population 40 million larger than 20 years ago, fertility rates have fallen in two decades by some 500,000 births per year.
Meanwhile, from 1980 to 2020, room, board, and tuition increased by 170 percent.
Skyrocketing costs cannot be explained by inflation alone, given that campuses have lightened faculty teaching loads while expanding administrative staff. At Stanford, there is nearly one staffer or administrative position for every student on campus.
At the same time, to vie for a shrinking number of students, colleges began offering costly in loco parentis counseling, Club Med-style dorms and accommodations, and extracurricular activities.
As applicants grew scarcer and expenses went up, universities began offering "full-service" student-aid packages, heavily reliant on government-subsidized student loans. The collective indebtedness of over 40 million student borrowers is nearing $2 trillion.
Worse still, an entire new array of therapeutic majors and minors appeared in the social sciences. Most of these gender/race/environmental courses did not emphasize analytical, mathematical, or oral and written skills. Such course work did not impress employers.
Faculty hiring had become increasingly non-meritocratic based on diversity/equity/inclusion criteria. New faculty hires have sought to institutionalize self-serving DEI and recalibrate higher education to prepare a new generation for self-perpetuating radical ideologies.
At the more elite campuses, racial quotas vastly curtailed the number of Asian and white students. But that racialist social engineering project required dropping the SAT requirement and comparative ranking of high school grade point averages.
At the same time, to vie for a shrinking number of students, colleges began offering costly in loco parentis counseling, Club Med-style dorms and accommodations, and extracurricular activities.
Don't forget the ever popular money-laundering services of 'tuition-banking' for Intl students that cannot provide enough ID to open standard checking accounts.
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Strange how they can't seem to make the connection between LGBT and mental illness.
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These are the Covid Teens, so mental health problems are up across the board especially substance abuse.
Also, there is the theory that the reason this lifestyle is up, is many are using it as Social Armor. For them, they are behaving in a manner at odds with how they really feel and constantly have to prove their armor, which would be very stressful.
Getting past all that, the ones who are, are told that to be part of The Team, they also have to accept the outrageous parts like pedos and trannies, and the behaviors they promote, or they are enemy.
Finally it seems to be a fundamentally unhappy lifestyle, with lots of short term relationships and cheating, sowing distrust.
Transgenderism is, by their own definition, a mental illness. Especially if a parent is forcing it. Then pump them so full of hormones it would never be allowed in agriculture. The pronoun game is an exercise in multiple personality disorder.
And one wrong media post and they are painted into a corner. Its like watching sea turtles hatch.
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not real confident in study methodology since it isn't obvious how non-responses were handled
however, note that of cis gender respondents over 25% of the males and 30% of females also considered suicide - not that much different from the LGBT group
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I agree with Piers Morgan, I am not a cis anything. I am a man, PERIOD.
[Federalist] Forty years ago, a KGB defector, Yuri Bezmenov, revealed the systematic plan Soviet communists used to take down countries and establish a communist-type society and regime. More recently, a Chinese defector immigrant, Xi Van Fleet, has been on a crusade to warn Americans about the parallels between what is happening in America today and what Mao did in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
The systematic plan Bezmenov revealed involves four fluid stages of communist subversion: 1) demoralization, 2) disorientation, 3) crisis, and 4) normalization. In Mao’s America, Xi Van Fleet explains how Mao’s destruction of the "Four Olds" (old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits) is being replicated by today’s leftist cancel culture, which will end what is left of freedom in America if not stopped.
The Israeli journalist Amit Segal published a Hebrew-language story in the popular Israeli news outlet Mako that reveals an American betrayal of Israel of stupefying magnitude. ’Very senior officials associated with the International Criminal Court in The Hague,’ wrote Segal, ’have spoken about Israel’s fear of arrest warrants for senior officials in the context of the war in Gaza. The officials told N12 [Mako’s broadcast channel] that the intention to issue such orders would not have been possible without American consent.’
If this recent report should prove accurate, this would constitute one of the most egregious betrayals of one supposed ally by another...in recorded history. With friends like the Biden administration, who needs enemies? And, sadly, Israel has lots of those.
Should these allegations prove true, it would mean that Biden and his puppet masters are not content with attempting to incarcerate political opponents here at home, but also actively seek to have those they dislike abroad arrested—with the aid of an international body! To my knowledge, even Hitler and his minions didn’t do that.
Apparently not content with the Afghanistan debacle/disaster (and accidentally donating billions of dollars in crack military equipment to the likes of the Taliban after hastily bugging out), nor with promulgating an endless war in Eastern Europe, Biden and Crew have now pivoted to stabbing a long-time ally—and the only democracy in the Middle east—in the back.
Again, should the report be born out, it would clearly illustrate that the Biden administration itself is an illegitimate, protofascist regime bent on destabilizing other nations, including historically friendly ones.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
