The Coming Collapse Week in Higher Education

MIKE LACHANCE SEP 7, 2019 8:00 AM

People have been predicting the higher education apocalypse for years. Could it actually happen?

• Expert Predicts up to 25 Percent of American Colleges Will Close in Next Two Decades

Maybe this has something to do with it.

• Triggered Prof Almost Cancels Class After Seeing ‘Build the Wall’ Display on Campus
• Poll Finds 73 Percent of Republican Students Stay Silent for Fear Over Their Grades
• College in Colorado Drops SAT/ACT Requirement to Increase Campus Diversity

Compare and contrast.

• Penn State to Celebrate Constitution Day on Sept. 17
• U. South Carolina Doesn’t Have Course on U.S. Constitution but Offers ‘Tailgating 101’

This is not the point of college.

• Convocation Speaker Tells Incoming Students at Bates College to Become Activists

How is this acceptable?

• Prof in Texas Tells Students El Paso’s Republican Mayor is a ‘White Supremacist’
• Transgender Professor Thinks It’s OK to Celebrate Deaths of ‘Transphobes’

That’s a pretty big haul.

• University of Georgia Employee Stole $1.3 Million From School’s Greek Life Organizations

So ridiculous.

• Law Prof Faces Termination for Using N-Word During Discussion of Civil Rights Case

Next they’ll come for George Washington.

• George Washington University Students Try to Cancel the Word ‘Colonial’ on Campus

Oh great.

• Thousands of University Workers in Oregon Preparing to Strike

Good for him!

• 52 Year-Old Former Navy SEAL Entering Yale as a Freshman

Sounds perfectly reasonable.

• Harvard Now Has a Tree That Live-Tweets About Climate Change

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