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WiffenPoof

(2,404 posts) Fri Jan 9, 2015, 05:58 PM Jan 2015

Corporate Universities - The Death of Culture in America

It seems that every other commercial these days is either for some new drug to ask your doctor about or some new for-profit university specializing in some specific vocation...and financial aid is of course, available to those that qualify (an obvious scam).

As the trend towards corporate schools continues to grow and university tuition continues to climb, is it reaching too far to say that in fifty years our county will be culturally bankrupt?

MacPaige

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Corporate Universities - The Death of Culture in America (Original Post) WiffenPoof Jan 2015 OP

Not more than three minutes after I read this thread, there was an ad for one of them madinmaryland Jan 2015 #1

Reaching way too far, if ya ask me--and in the wrong direction. Jackpine Radical Jan 2015 #2

madinmaryland

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1. Not more than three minutes after I read this thread, there was an ad for one of them

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Fri Jan 9, 2015, 06:11 PM

Jan 2015

on TV. Miami-Jacobs College. Yeah. They are a scam.

Are these places even accredited?

Jackpine Radical

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2. Reaching way too far, if ya ask me--and in the wrong direction.

Reply to WiffenPoof (Original post)

Fri Jan 9, 2015, 06:18 PM

Jan 2015

The cultural bankruptcy was declared at some point in the Bush hears, as nearly as I can figure.

It's not just the for-profit schools. It's the public universities whose research is directed by the interests of for-profit corporations.

The university as a traditional center of culture in all its manifestations--philosophy, arts, sciences, etc. hardly exists any more. The universities are dominated by for-profit corporations and billionaire contributors who buy a share in the universities by getting a Business School, or at least a lovely new building, named for them.

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