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The Happy Warrior
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 Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 12:45 pm Post subject: Public Higher Education Eroding from All Sides |
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Public Higher Education Eroding from All Sides
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The ideal of American public higher education may have entered a death spiral, several scholars said . . .
"We've crossed a threshold," said Clyde W. Barrow, director of the Center for Policy Analysis at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. "Higher education is no longer viewed as a public good in this country. As tuition at public universities becomes more expensive, middle-class parents say, 'I'll bite the bullet and pay this for four years, but I don't want to pay for it a second time with taxes.' And families who are frozen out of the system see public universities as something for the affluent. They'd rather see the state spend money on health care."
The danger, Ms. Brown said, is that the public will give up on the idea of educating people for democratic citizenship. Instead, all of public higher education will be essentially vocational in nature, oriented entirely around the market logic of job preparation. Instead of educating whole persons, Ms. Brown warned, universities will be expected to "build human capital," a narrower and more hollow mission. |
It begins. People are questioning the point of subsidizing the liberal arts. And the current quality of liberal arts today is too weak to defend itself. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Get ready for some uni campus freak-outs should this come to pass. |
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brickabrack
Joined: 17 May 2010
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| People like Celente say they had predicted this over a decade ago...specifically higher ed in the public sector. |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 1:47 pm Post subject: Re: Public Higher Education Eroding from All Sides |
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| The Happy Warrior wrote: |
Public Higher Education Eroding from All Sides
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The ideal of American public higher education may have entered a death spiral, several scholars said . . .
"We've crossed a threshold," said Clyde W. Barrow, director of the Center for Policy Analysis at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. "Higher education is no longer viewed as a public good in this country. As tuition at public universities becomes more expensive, middle-class parents say, 'I'll bite the bullet and pay this for four years, but I don't want to pay for it a second time with taxes.' And families who are frozen out of the system see public universities as something for the affluent. They'd rather see the state spend money on health care."
The danger, Ms. Brown said, is that the public will give up on the idea of educating people for democratic citizenship. Instead, all of public higher education will be essentially vocational in nature, oriented entirely around the market logic of job preparation. Instead of educating whole persons, Ms. Brown warned, universities will be expected to "build human capital," a narrower and more hollow mission. |
It begins. People are questioning the point of subsidizing the liberal arts. And the current quality of liberal arts today is too weak to defend itself. |
You're probably the only one here who actually studied something resembling the liberal arts. |
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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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It's the decline of civilisation, man.
I'm educated to the hilt and gave up all hope in my fellow man a while ago. Go get yourself a beer and enjoy the show. |
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