Carve out some time this weekend for this WSJ piece, one of the best hate-reads I’ve had in ages. It’s long but I promise that it’s worth it.
How often do you a read a major investigative piece in which literally every person mentioned in it sucks?
Education Bubble
How Radical Are the Teachers’ Unions?
America’s teachers’ unions are the country’s single most malign influence. They do more to promote leftist extremism, and do it more effectively, than anyone else. The teachers’ unions dominate the schools of education, from which most teachers come, and they control school board elections in most districts. In effect, they run the public schools, which is the main reason why the public schools are so bad.
How radical are they?
Defunding the universities has started — with Supreme Court’s NCAA decision
Universities, with their endless diversity officers, six-figure salaries, tax-free set-ups, and luxury buildings going up like mushrooms, might just see their first brake on runaway spending.
American Universities Have Lost Their Prestige
Nothing is stranger than the contemporary American university.
Not long ago, Americans used to idolize their universities. Indeed, in science, math, engineering, medicine and business, many of these meritocratic departments and schools remain among the top-ranked in the world.
Laurentian University, key school for northern Ontario, files for creditor protection
Laurentian University has filed for creditor protection amid what its president calls “unprecedented financial challenges.”
Laurentian’s financial health “is currently amongst the weakest in the province compared to other universities,” Robert Haché, president and vice-chancellor of the Sudbury, Ont.-based school, said in a statement on Monday
“Despite our best efforts over the last year, Laurentian is insolvent.”
I can’t say I’m familiar with Laurentian. What sort of degree programs did they offer? Was it a self-inflicted wound? High administration fees mainly comprised of bureaucratic bloat, impossibly generous salary, retirement and benefit programs have doomed many US colleges. How many useless diversity poobahs does Laurentian have? Has it occurred to anyone that some institutions of alleged “higher learning” deserve to wither and die?