Republicans fuck college in Wisconsin...Walker never graduated..why should we?

[jodymarie aimee]

"Every new academic year brings more examples of how a college education is not what it once was – and, call me an elitist if you like – what it should be. I’ve posted curmudgeonly complaints before about the decline in academic and intellectual rigor at the university level. Recently, though, in a corner of the Great Lakes area, a new and disturbing idea has been loosed. The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point announced a plan to eliminate majors in nearly all humanities and social sciences. Apparently they do not provide enough job-specific training to attract enough tuition-paying students to justify their continued existence.....

"This frightening turn in American higher education – universities turning themselves into trade schools – results from more than just the increasing complexity of what used to be manual-labor jobs, and the resultant specialization.

"The difference this time around is not what has been added, but what has been taken away. For the first time since Latin and Greek were dropped as requirements nearly a hundred years ago, there is an existential threat to traditional instruction. However, one major aim of education remained in an attenuated form – the acquisition of a body of knowledge that could provide insight in multiple and varied circumstances.

"That is no more. Students are told what to memorize, be tested on, and then flush it out of their minds, never to be thought of again unless it directly relates to their job. Higher education is now job training. Instead of learning how to think and apply a breadth of knowledge to a changing world, college students are taught job-specific job skills, just as they would be in barber school....

"The State of Wisconsin used to have a university system that was the envy of other States. The “Wisconsin Idea,” articulated in 1905, identified the purpose of the State university system with benefitting the lives of everyone (“to improve the human condition”). A few years ago, Governor Scott Walker tried to sneak into a budget bill a reassignment of this purpose. Walker wanted to redefine the purpose of higher education as “to meet the State’s workforce needs.” His change was shot down by the legislature, but not his notion that education is the creation of workers with the specific technological skills that employers say they are seeking. That lived on...."

https://agoodmantoknow.com/2018/04/24/what-is-college-for/

[KPN]

1. Ditto Sean Hannity.

Oh, and Trump graduated, but probably shouldn't have (I/m sure there was considerable cheating at play in that).

[Snarkoleptic]

2. In Illinois, billionaire Gov. Bruce "Ruiner" Rauner is also destroying our university system.

Before taking office, his transition team let administrators know they needed to produce a budget with 20% less funding for the next year, and another 10% the following year.
R's don't know the difference between spending and investment.

[stopbush]

3. 68% of Americans do not hold a bachelors' degree.

Let alone a master or doctorate.

A completed college major that earns a degree is still a privilege reserved for a MINORITY of people in this country. Many people simply cannot afford the cost of earning a college degree. They may start out trying, but they then drop out when the costs hit their limit for the individual and their families. Many who do earn a degree are saddled with student debt and interest on that debt for decades.

And for what? To get a McJob that pays nothing? I’ve noticed here in SoCal that a college degree only means something to employers if it’s from a name university, like USC, Stanford or Berkeley. Out-of-state bachelors degrees from a non-CA state college system? Meh.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. As one who attended one of

Wisconsin's fantastic State Colleges,watched how the ALEC influence has slowly degraded the system. With the election of Walker and his Crew of Anti Education People,the ideal of College for the Wealthy appears to be their end game.

Again,follow the money.

[pansypoo53219]

5. low education builds the GOP base. gotta make more stupids.