58% of Republicans are anti-higher education (NYT)
Among both political parties, the chief reasons for losing faith in higher education are a cause for concern. Democrats cite college’s rising costs while Republicans, 58 percent of whom said that college has had a negative impact on society, think colleges are too ideological.
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The urban campus is described as having a “workaholic” vibe, and a running joke is that nobody looks twice at a student walking around campus in a suit. Chaitri Gulati, a third-year student at Northeastern, was drawn to the school because of the Co-op program, and because “sitting in class would not just be for the sake of taking examinations and intellectual enrichment.”
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A recent poll conducted by Northeastern and Gallup found that only 37 percent of workers said that if they lost their job to a machine they would turn to a college or university for retraining. Mr. Aoun hopes to lure more of those potential students.
Link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/education/learning/colleges-adapt-changing-students.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_ed_20180409&nl=the-edit&nl_art=3&nlid=73531149emc%3Dedit_ed_20180409&ref=headline&te=1
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It's official: Americans (particularly Republicans) are mouth-breathing idiots and proud of it.
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