December 8, 20231 yr 36 minutes ago, Toastrel said: Things like these are where you prove yourself a fool. Wearing blinders, willingly, is dumb, but you go above and beyond. No, I see clearly. Giving books to the underclass is stupid and a waste of time and resources… as if they could spend more than 4 seconds detached from their phone, let alone actually desire to read. They should get their 2 square government meals per day and learn to be good little $15 an hour worker bees.
December 8, 20231 yr Author 20 hours ago, Arthur Jackson said: I guess none of the fine institutions in the thread title are employing the Oxford comma Judgment or judgement?
December 8, 20231 yr 1 hour ago, Toastrel said: Plus the lunatic right does not value education, and prefers not be teachers, so we get book bans and pretend history. Businesses are starting to lean toward life experience over degrees. Matter of time
December 8, 20231 yr 2 hours ago, Toastrel said: Plus the lunatic right does not value education, and prefers not be teachers, so we get book bans and pretend history. Yeah, I'm sure the party that blasts teachers at everyone turn is gonna gain a foothold in the profession with a new crop of right-leaning teachers real soon.
December 8, 20231 yr 4 hours ago, vikas83 said: While that's true at most universities, it doesn't have to be at Harvard, Penn and MIT. They have no issue recruiting students. Maybe they want to keep people applying to maintain the miniscule acceptance rates, but they don't have a demand problem. I feel like for those schools its an image thing. Also administrators are afraid of faculty senates full of loony lefty professors.
December 8, 20231 yr 1 hour ago, Procus said: What percentage of the university warchest would you say comes from tuition receipts as compared to endowments and donations? Totally depends on the university. Smaller privates are completely tuition dependent if they aren't super prestigious. They're the ones struggling to keep the lights on. Obviously Penn and Harvard aren't struggling. They have huge endowments. University Presidents though are often frightened and weak willed. They're afraid of the students and the faculty who are in general loony lefties. Some universities are conservative leaning (at my alma mater Ken Starr is worshipped like a god). Not many but some. So its a case by. case basis.
December 8, 20231 yr 1 hour ago, TEW said: No, I see clearly. Giving books to the underclass is stupid and a waste of time and resources… as if they could spend more than 4 seconds detached from their phone, let alone actually desire to read. They should get their 2 square government meals per day and learn to be good little $15 an hour worker bees.
December 8, 20231 yr 28 minutes ago, Gannan said: Totally depends on the university. Smaller privates are completely tuition dependent if they aren't super prestigious. They're the ones struggling to keep the lights on. Obviously Penn and Harvard aren't struggling. They have huge endowments. University Presidents though are often frightened and weak willed. They're afraid of the students and the faculty who are in general loony lefties. Some universities are conservative leaning (at my alma mater Ken Starr is worshipped like a god). Not many but some. So its a case by. case basis. It also varies within the schools. Departments and schools often skew the exact way you think they would politically. The business school is conservative. The liberal arts school is liberal. The relative value of the programs to the school often determines which has more sway over the school leadership. At Nova, the Law School and the School of Business, were the swinging Ds on campus but the School of business had the biggest political sway and pretty much got what they wanted.
December 9, 20231 yr 1 hour ago, Gannan said: I feel like for those schools its an image thing. Also administrators are afraid of faculty senates full of loony lefty professors. Bingo. They are more afraid of the faculty.
December 9, 20231 yr 1 hour ago, Gannan said: Totally depends on the university. Smaller privates are completely tuition dependent if they aren't super prestigious. They're the ones struggling to keep the lights on. Obviously Penn and Harvard aren't struggling. They have huge endowments. University Presidents though are often frightened and weak willed. They're afraid of the students and the faculty who are in general loony lefties. Some universities are conservative leaning (at my alma mater Ken Starr is worshipped like a god). Not many but some. So its a case by. case basis. Did you go to Pepperdine?
December 9, 20231 yr 14 hours ago, vikas83 said: Did you go to Pepperdine? Yep! My teaching days are mostly behind me but I still teach grad courses there as an adjunct. Well not there, there... virtually there.
December 9, 20231 yr 2 hours ago, Gannan said: Yep! My teaching days are mostly behind me but I still teach grad courses there as an adjunct. Well not there, there... virtually there. Nice. My wife went to Pepperdine. When I saw the campus for the first time, I was just so angry that people get to go to school there and not West Philadelphia. When we moved back to LA in 2016, she convinced me to live in Malibu for a couple years. Right by La Costa Beach. If you are ever there, see if some hole in the wall place called Country Kitchen is still there and get a breakfast burrito.
December 9, 20231 yr 1 hour ago, vikas83 said: Nice. My wife went to Pepperdine. When I saw the campus for the first time, I was just so angry that people get to go to school there and not West Philadelphia. When we moved back to LA in 2016, she convinced me to live in Malibu for a couple years. Right by La Costa Beach. If you are ever there, see if some hole in the wall place called Country Kitchen is still there and get a breakfast burrito. This whole post of yours was just this...
December 9, 20231 yr Arthur, does the advent of AI for purposes like this make your life easier, or do you kinda miss doing those mcpipi masterpieces in ms paint like it was 1995?
December 9, 20231 yr Who in their right mind would want an R. Kelly themed drink with their Happy Meal?
December 10, 20231 yr 3 hours ago, Procus said: "Fall guy". It'll let those donors save face with those multi million dollar endowments but, It doesn't change the culture.
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