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2006-08-30 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Omiper Unenter9180 2006-08-30 03:51|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The myth is that one time institutions of higher learning were suppose to be centers of intellect. That's about as true as the news media was suppose to be neutral. It's something honored in exception rather than practice and more so in the past than any present incarnation of the process. The bulk of universities and colleges today are simply accreditation mills for employers. It's something to be placed upon a resume. The administrators try desperately not to acknowledge this fact cause they cling to the myth so they expend the value of their institution by defending self-important jerks and twits who played the tenure game. The ability to sell your product as having value and therefore is disguisable from say a community college is the prestige the product is held to is dependent upon how employers, those people who help pay off student loans by the means of employment, perceive what you deliver. Undermine that value by playing stupid games of inter-university politics and soon the name starts to lose value. You can live on branding only so long. Some longer than others, but eventually it will catch up with you.

Posted by Sleting Ebbager4513 2006-08-30 09:31|| 2006-08-30 09:31|| Front Page Top

#2 And if you excuse me, leads to one of the underlying casual factors that men seem to be attending college in lesser numbers. With the proliferation of soft degrees in arts and humanities populated by females, the men looking at post high school education in a practical manner of return on investment, time and money, are headed to what would be considered trade or skill jobs. Hard studies like chemistry, mathematics, architecture, etc, dont seem to be suffering the same male flight that the soft degrees do. Graduate with a four year college loan debt in English or History or Art and what are the chances are you going to get employment in any of those fields outside teaching assistant while you build even more debt working to the next degree. Meanwhile, when you take your car in to the dealer for service, just how much an hour is that mechanic getting? Its that sort of thing. Stuff like the hierarchical positioning games played by college wonks and lesser primates are something most guys can avoid by seeking productive income through other routes.

Posted by Sleting Ebbager4513 2006-08-30 09:44|| 2006-08-30 09:44|| Front Page Top

#3 "Scholars" should know better than to try to "teach" an opinion.

Unless it's labelled the theory of evolution, of course! {snicker}

Posted by Bobby 2006-08-30 11:44|| 2006-08-30 11:44|| Front Page Top

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