tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670799.post7676668074631910727..comments2023-11-02T09:44:15.693-04:00Comments on The Center for College Affordability and Productivity: Reinvention or Extinction: The Gospel According to St. GordonCenter for College Affordability and Productivityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041956958538598371noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670799.post-39388636145508923152009-02-10T17:12:00.000-05:002009-02-10T17:12:00.000-05:00AGM -- I don't know your work history, but it soun...AGM -- I don't know your work history, but it sounds like you need a new position fast -- otherwise the guilt is going to get to you.capemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00327687293859434403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670799.post-88360677989849535362009-02-10T08:39:00.000-05:002009-02-10T08:39:00.000-05:00The fact is that those of us who work as administr...The fact is that those of us who work as administrators in America's colleges and universities have had our ethics hijacked. We continue to balance our budgets by admitting students into freshman classes with no chance of them ever graduating. The schools that do get them to graduate do so only by providing academic programs that provide knowledge and skills that prepare their graduates for careers as convenience store clerks. We then declare victory in the name of diversity. <BR/>Public money that could go to stimulating this economy is going to create graduate programs of no value so that America's worst faculty can sit in front of America's worst college students. In the end the money would be better spent paying them all to move rocks from one side of the campus to the other. At least they would all get exercise.<BR/>American higher education is addicted to spending and lying and we need to get on a 12 step program fast or we will water down the value of a college education to the point it is worthless.<BR/>We can blame the courts for Griggs v. Duke Power but had we not allowed community colleges to veer from their original mission of technical and continuing education and if we had not allowed 4 year schools to become 5 year schools so truck drivers and factory workers (both noble jobs)could be turned into speech communication majors the market would have found a better way to deal with the decision.<BR/>What is perhaps most tragic is the thousands of deserving students and faculty who are not receiving the attention or resources they deserve because in an attempt to stamp out elitism and adjust for wasteful spending the academy has become far less rigorous and more interested in "appearing good" than "doing good." Will the country really be better off by guaranteeing that everyone can go to college regardless of their intelligence?AGMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12118774439898947012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670799.post-57548993565954700112009-02-09T21:32:00.000-05:002009-02-09T21:32:00.000-05:00Did Gordon Gee **** your wife, Doc?Seriously, you ...Did Gordon Gee **** your wife, Doc?<BR/><BR/>Seriously, you have a raging hard on for this guy. Gee (pun intended), I wonder what most prominent university presidents think of your "destroy the village in order to save it" prescription for public higher education?<BR/><BR/>Obviously most prominent university presidents--not to mention prominent deans of econ departments--never thought much of you or they would have hired you away from the academic backwaters of Athens, OH.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08650449136836434227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670799.post-60527798545482960152009-02-09T13:19:00.000-05:002009-02-09T13:19:00.000-05:00"Universities should not hunker down and beg for e..."Universities should not hunker down and beg for enough money to ride out this downturn (which they are doing as we speak with their lobbyists working overtime to get stimulus dollars"<BR/><BR/>This is an absurd statement. Universities are not "begging for enough" to survive the current downturn. They are not in danger of "extinction". The amounts of stimulus money are peanuts compared to their overall budgets. They might as well get in on the goodies, if there is going to be a stimulus package. But they idea that they need this to survive is ridiculous.capemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00327687293859434403noreply@blogger.com