I’m stepping away for awhile. I’m sure the world will go on.

In the 80s, math was taught by Ron Swanson lookalikes.

Higher education is important for keeping narrow-minded ideologues away from the general public.

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Instead of adding pink ribbons to their products every October maybe companies should just remove the cancer causing ingredients

Higher education might be compelled to consider the fact that it sucks.

What’s the novel in which a group of experienced ministers drink and talk about how they’ve all lost their faith, as they learned the job is being a con-man: lying to extract money from suffering people?

Didn’t Academically Adrift (2011) show that nearly all colleges SUBTRACT value from students learning outcomes? I guarantee it is worse now, at a much higher cost. Let’s see your institution’s internal data, if you have any—since you do not measure what you do not want others to know.

If you attack me personally, I will dox you, aggressively.

At this point, higher education primarily exists to employ administrators to extract wealth from young people who think college is their only option. It’s time to build new career pathways, AND to create lifelong educational opportunities that are not brazenly exploitative.

I’ve spent most of my adult life in higher education, 1986-2022. I had many blue-collar jobs before and during undergrad, and I’ve been exploring entrepreneurial work since I retired from a tenured professorship at 54. Based on that, my understanding of the economy is skewed, and I have to rely on data and the anecdotal testimony of others, often on social media.

Prospective college students really need to look at institutional bond ratings to discern whether their choices will close in the next five years.

Everything was bad before, for everyone. So nothing matters.

If I had a trillion dollars—I would rally the other oligarchs—and no one would need anything to live a decent, sustainable life with healthcare, education, and housing. Or I’d begin creating an advanced surveillance state while planning to leave the planet.

Rooster has no clue about higher education.

Of course fast food work is political.

Considering opportunity cost, debt, and measurable value-added, I don’t think college makes sense for most people anymore. My net worth would be greater now if I had kept the pizza delivery job I landed at 18 instead of getting a PhD from Harvard and tenure at a small college. I know money is not the only measure, but nothing else can be quantified. Defenses of taking on crippling debt with no job prospects are almost all mystifications about higher calling.

THE DEGREE PREMIUM FOR YOUNG MEN IS GONE US men 22-27 with a college degree are now unemployed at the same rate as men who never went. Both now sit at 7%

Teaching at an institution with a religious mission erodes authentic faith because one must outwardly conform to remain employed. Inner struggle must be concealed. And then one finds oneself alone among dissemblers, hypocrites, witch hunters, and Pharisees.

The new, one-year doctorate will address the terrible, multigenerational shortage of humanities professors.