Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock reacted to the Trump Administration’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education by saying the university would accept no new grant money, that professors would be returning what monies they now had, that the university would accept no federal funds of any kind, that they would ban its students from accepting student loans (all are backed by the federal government), and they would refuse all federal and state favors, tax breaks, and any and all other special considerations.
Get rid of all federal student aid save for ROTC. Give every natural born citizen some startup capital upon reaching age of majority. Let them use it to start a business, start a family, get an education or buy a bitchin sports car. Call it a universal inheritance. Call it Reparations. Call it true equality of opportunity. Call it a Pay it Forward Society.
Note how I just went hard Left and hard Traditional at the same time.
Make universities compete fairly against other uses of startup capital.
"A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another: and the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government or the majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body."
Who will define academic excellence? A gang of overly-administrative administrative thugs? Except for specialized learning, higher ed is a waste of time. You do not learn practical skills and well over half the junk they teach is totally useless in the real world or non-essential. Oh I know, we have to keep up with China lest they trample us with their presumed superiority.
Get rid of all federal student aid save for ROTC. Give every natural born citizen some startup capital upon reaching age of majority. Let them use it to start a business, start a family, get an education or buy a bitchin sports car. Call it a universal inheritance. Call it Reparations. Call it true equality of opportunity. Call it a Pay it Forward Society.
Note how I just went hard Left and hard Traditional at the same time.
Make universities compete fairly against other uses of startup capital.
"A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another: and the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government or the majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body."
- John Stuart Mill
Who will define academic excellence? A gang of overly-administrative administrative thugs? Except for specialized learning, higher ed is a waste of time. You do not learn practical skills and well over half the junk they teach is totally useless in the real world or non-essential. Oh I know, we have to keep up with China lest they trample us with their presumed superiority.
That one big fellow has an ass under his shirt. Odd.
This essay presents an even-handed diagnosis of the observed pathology: https://boomerdammerung.substack.com/p/why-nothing-works-anymore