Joe Biden’s Title IX Problem Week in Higher Education
Your weekly report on campus news.
Joe Biden pushed campus sexual assault policies that might have gotten him into big trouble.
Speaking of Joe Biden on campus.
And speaking of the University of Delaware.
Lots of schools are struggling with enrollment.
- Colleges Could Reportedly Lose 20 Percent of Student Enrollment Due to Coronavirus
- Coronavirus Crisis is Causing Many Students to Consider Taking a Gap Year
But there are signs of hope.
- Texas A&M to Reopen Campus in the Fall, Will Play Football
- Harvard Announces it Will Reopen Campus for Fall 2020 With Modifications
- University of Alabama Plans to Reopen Campus This Fall
Important update.
Lawsuits are flying every which way.
- Conservative, Pro-Israel DePaul U. Prof. Jason Hill sues University for Defamation
- U. North Texas Math Prof Files Free Speech Lawsuit After Being Fired
- Columbia University Hit With Tuition Refund Lawsuit Over Coronavirus
Grim news from Rutgers.
- Rutgers University Expects $200 Million Shortfall Due to Coronavirus Crisis
- Rutgers University Prof Blames Trump Supporters for Coronavirus Deaths
This is just insulting.
Nice try.
Must be nice.
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Did you know that Apple and Microsoft have dropped the college degree requirement for new hires?
That was Elon Musk’s idea. I wonder how it’s working?
Don’t know about that.
Wanted to add that the largest, international accounting firms have also stopped requiring 4 year college degrees for many of their jobs.
The problem I had is that most college graduates today are just not what they used to be. Colleges have dumbed down currlicums. In part just to get more students, and in an even larger part push diversity, and other PC agendas. They are turning out far too many incompetents.
I was hiring technical people, I found a better gauge of their suitability was rather or not they did hobbyist stuff. I often found that people with top grades did not have the spart it took, an innate grasp of how things work, to be effective engineers. They might have eventually been suitable as a manager, but that was my job.
Hear Hear!!!!!!!
Maybe I should tell some tales out of school……
Must have been 2008 or 2007 because Hillary Clinton flew in to help celebrate it. A half-dozen campus size college had just started free college for all county HS graduates with a C average or higher. Oh they have to do social justice acts and go through that brain washing in return.
Well that public school system was graded with 78 percent of its schools getting an F grade. (So how many got a D grade? That is failing also.)
It has been accepting functionally illerate students. One family member visiting with me on an unrelated topic just out of the blue volunteered that their young nephew had to drop out of that college because he was reading at 3rd grade level.
That is the reason textbook publishers who offer voice over Powerpoint slides literally showing how to do all the homework are so popular with students. Problem is most just out HS students rush through it to get it over with and can’t pass closed-book, proctored exams even if the students scored 100% on the homework.
That is another issue pushed by admin – they don’t care, and even reward instructors that have zero proctored work even for core introductory courses. That means for online classes that never have to come on campus or even see the teacher once, you have many students paying someone to take the class and get an A for them.
That last fact was proven by a local paper and tv station.
Think about it.
Even an A student coming froma HS with an F rating is most likely D or high F student in reality.
Fyi
The higher education system is grossly overbuilt and over-extended. It needs to be prune down to al least a third of its current size.
“Will Coronavirus Crisis Trigger an Enrollment Crisis?
U.S. colleges could see a major enrollment pipeline cut off this fall if the coronavirus epidemic persists. Meanwhile, Australian universities are missing more than half their Chinese students weeks before their fall semester begin.
The biggest story in international education over the last decade was, in a word, China.
As the number of students from China studying in the U.S. grew rapidly, fueled by a big increase in tuition-paying undergraduates, colleges and universities grew reliant on them to balance their budgets. And as Chinese universities grew in stature, American colleges created innumerable partnerships with their Chinese counterparts in research and other areas….”
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/02/13/longer-coronavirus-crisis-persists-bigger-likely-impact-chinese-student-enrollments