The Homeless Adjunct
- First, you defund public higher education.
- Second, you deprofessionalize and impoverish the professors
- Step #3: You move in a managerial/administrative class who take over governance of the university.
- Step Four: You move in corporate culture and corporate money
- Step Five – Destroy the Students
How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps
More neoliberalism at work.
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This is all true, but a significant part of the professoriat deserve the blame as well, namely
1) Mainstream "economists" who have no more understanding of the economy that those who study animal entrails and
2) The broad class of utterly useless-verging on fraudulent- class of self-interested BS-ers broadly described as "postmodernists"
That much of the middle class would want to de-fund these groups is actually understandable. Not that there is not a lot of excellent research and development of ideas in parts of academia. But the fraudulent seriously began to overshadow the good in large swaths of the humanities and social sciences in the last 40 years.
The inevitability of progress weighs on the minds of every professor as they know they have been made redundant and it is only a matter of time for the clever to chop them.
With technology there is no need to have 5,000 professors teaching the same course at universities across the nation, in the same way that we didn't need a reporter at every local paper covering Washington.
I see a future where we have an elite group of say Harvard professors that make obscene amounts of money. The elite students will get to take their course. The droves of regular students will get to watch recordings of their lectures and will have access to a $15/hr part time Public University PhD that can answer questions and help students feel like they have a personal touch in learning how to fill out their multiple choice exams.
The PhD's will be experts at filling in multiple choice exams too because that is what they learned to do when they attended public university!
The politicians have been saying for decades, everyone, EVERYONE, need to have at least a bachelors or preferably a masters to get any job. It means the university begins to look more like a public high/elementary school where there is less room for eccentric, clever personalities and more defined curriculum that delivers consistent results.
So true Ryan. University is now a manufacturing centre of automatons to feed specialized jobs at the different industries. We have alot of seemingly smart individuals employed but at the same time deprived of deep analytical thinking because that's not learned any more in formal education, and this starts BEFORE university as kids, so the disease is worse than that.
Independent, creative and critical thinking will have to be born from somewhere else. Thankfully human curiosity is endless and new technologies give us access to unlimited sources of inspiration and information. We have tension between the old 'industrial revolution' education model and a not-yet born modern model of education based on genuine creativity, capacities and intelligence beyond mere repetition and automation.
With the "progressive" and Keynesian paradigms in a state of utter collapse, it won't be long before the middle class will refuse to allow their children to be within 3 miles of a "progressive" or Keynesian "educator".
The growth of bible schools proves the point?
Bible schools?
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