Re: are there any public universities left in the states?

On Aug 17, 3:28 pm, John <n...@droffats.ten> wrote:
> Shrikeb...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Aug 16, 9:18 pm, sirbl...@hotmail.com wrote:
> >> or are they all funded by capitalism?
>
> >> would that explain the disappearance of the humanities?
>
> > The humanities haven't disappeared.  Now that the majority
> > of college students are women, they are even bigger than
> > ever.
>
> The departments that ballooned are the College of Education, and Nursing
> in particular where women were always over-represented. As far as the
> sciences go, there is a significant increase in the number of women
> there, much of it due to the liberal attitude of this generation of
> parents in non-European countries who encourage their daughters to
> become educated. So the overall effect of more women could be said to
> further diminish the Humanities. The effect is compounded by the power
> of the sciences compared to the humanities in the university politic.
>
> Another sign of the subversion of the Humanities is the attention the
> state university gives to persons of other cultures. An office of
> Cultural Diversity is created with a creed (a rubber stamp thing). Under
>   the guise of cultural diversity the influence of the great number of
> foreign students in the sciences is enhanced. The students in question
> are likely to pursue graduate degrees and their GPA is considerably
> above the mean. Outcome metrics eat it up. It's what the State likes. So
> the Department of Humanities is inched closer to a brand-new department
> of Cross Disciplinary Studies where the Humanities become politically
> impotent, overwhelmed by the sciences.
>
> We good now, bro?
>
> I live there. Ya dig?

I hereby yield to John's appraisal of the on-going campus politics,
which are of course subtle, complex & ambiguous having much to do with
adapting to dynamics of race and gender politiks.

However: the original poster is intimating (to me)  that an admittedly
more "rightist" dominated secular state is not funding "non religious
slanted philosophy & history" and whatever else (are foreign languages
considered humanities?), then that's fantasy, or stretching kernels of
political truth.

At least I hope it is.

As for that cliche "liberal cabal" accusation, such depends on the
particular university or college, though there is surely some truth
with that stereotype too

Professors are mere humans, and they do seem to think and slant in
fear, conformity & political correctness: perhaps see ---> Thomas Kuhn
for explanations.

However, the exception: When I had an economic geography course for
two days with a colorful bastarde-professor who baited Jews, I dropped
his course: the South had been going through 1960s racial ferment and,
hellefire, he was exercising academic freesdom
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