Although fiscal concerns are undeniably real, the proposed austerity measures — opposed by faculty unions and education activists who cite bloated administrative budgets and excessive spending on sports arenas and new construction — fit into a larger right-wing playbook that has long pressed for the restructuring of higher education.
Richard Kent Vedder, an adjunct scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and a senior fellow at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), lists these goals in his 2019 book, Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America. Among them: dismiss “old rules” such as tenure and summer breaks; increase teaching loads; end affirmative action and related diversity programs; end or revise the federal student financial aid program; and give departments and professors a share of revenue based on student enrollment in their classes...
The result is the elevation of accounting, business, computer science, culinary and engineering programs over the liberal arts and humanities. - Truthout
Saturday, April 3, 2021
COVID-19 as an excuse to slash humanities and screw up college in general
If I had a chance to do it over again, I'd major in philosophy, not engineering. But, no point in wallowing in regret. What matters is the here and now.
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