Public higher ed in the U.S. is nearly as old as the country itself. But taxpayers expect an education rooted in American values and a cure for cancer, not DEI, administrative bloat, and socialism.
That is a really well written piece spelling out the inequities with facts and not just opinion. I'm really proud of you and your growth in journalism glad I've been around to see it. Something along this topic is the contempt the young engineers and construction managers have for anyone in the field. They're told to not trust anything we say. Then when I show them where they have made mistakes in their calculations or explain why that doesn't make any sense they ask you must have an engineering degree. When I tell them I don't they look at me gobsmacked then revert back to telling me how I should be doing things again. Oh well...
Yep. I've been on the upstream side of this many times. These same kids had no respect for the techs who worked for me who possessed 10x, minimum, the student's knowledge of what was going on in the lab. My favorites were the young men from countries where professional women don't exist. I used to encourage my female techs and TAs to tune ‘em up.
You mentioned that word “virtue.” It used to be the primary concern of educators from the time of Socrates up through the scholastic period of European universities and into the Enlightenment period. Now that word is almost never heard in academia so it is little wonder that it is not widely practiced.
That is a really well written piece spelling out the inequities with facts and not just opinion. I'm really proud of you and your growth in journalism glad I've been around to see it. Something along this topic is the contempt the young engineers and construction managers have for anyone in the field. They're told to not trust anything we say. Then when I show them where they have made mistakes in their calculations or explain why that doesn't make any sense they ask you must have an engineering degree. When I tell them I don't they look at me gobsmacked then revert back to telling me how I should be doing things again. Oh well...
Yep. I've been on the upstream side of this many times. These same kids had no respect for the techs who worked for me who possessed 10x, minimum, the student's knowledge of what was going on in the lab. My favorites were the young men from countries where professional women don't exist. I used to encourage my female techs and TAs to tune ‘em up.
Awesome!
You mentioned that word “virtue.” It used to be the primary concern of educators from the time of Socrates up through the scholastic period of European universities and into the Enlightenment period. Now that word is almost never heard in academia so it is little wonder that it is not widely practiced.